This project focuses on Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) and its goal is to make people aware of its importance and increasing use. This study shows the difference between a Virtual Learning Environment and other educational websites and how we can understand its specificities. This paper addresses Moodle, which is a modular object-oriented dynamic learning environment used by study communities all over the world for free; and EnglishTown, which is an on-line English school using Adobe’s Adobe Connect 8. Both are accessed by many people and can help us be aware of what a VLE is.

1. Virtual Learning
Environments
Computer Assisted Language Learning
2011

2. Virtual Learning
Environment (VLE)
● Makes e-learning easier and more
interactive.
● Supplement traditional face-to-face
classroom activities, absorbing less time and
providing a service for students who look to
the Internet as the natural medium for
finding information and sources.
● Two-way interaction: does it really happen?

3. Introduction - VLE
Enhance your teaching by creating a course web
site, taking advantage of the Internet without
replacing the need for a teacher:
● provide access control - only enrolled
students can view it,
● easy way to upload and share materials,
● hold online discussions and chats,
● give quizzes and surveys,
● gather and review assignments,
● record grades.

4. World of Moodle
● Moodle is a system of administration of educational
activities intended for the creation of online
communities, in virtual environments turned to the
apprenticeship.
● Moodle stands for Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic
Learning Environment. It can also function as a verb
which describes the improvisational process of doing
things as it occurs to you to do them, an enjoyable
tinkering that often leads to insight and creativity.
● As such, it applies both to the way Moodle was
developed, and to the way a student or teacher might
approach studying or teaching an online course.

5. Moodle at GFarias.com
http://www.gfarias.com/campus2/

6. Moodle
● Using Moodle is an easy task, since the most difficult
thing is to break the paradigms of inserting a new
technological recourse in the process of apprenticeship.
● Many universities and schools already use Moodle. It's
also used by teachers for other types of activities that
include the formation of study groups and development
of projects. Other sectors, not related to education, also
use Moodle, for example private companies, NGOs and
independent groups that need to interact collaboratively
on the Internet.

7. Moodle at USP - Rede Aluno
http://moodle.redealuno.usp.br/moodle/

8. Moodle Language Learning
● Social interaction required for development
of communicative skills in language learning.
● Advances in technology made the use of oral
and written tasks possible and efficient.
● Moodle is based on socio-constructivist
principles and it is most suited for an
educational approach involving interaction
amongst people rather than transmission of
content.

9. Moodle at Faculdades Rio Branco
http://moodle.riobrancofac.edu.br/

10. Englishtown
OVERVIEW:
• a 100% on-line English school for adults speakers of other
languages;
• division of EF (Education First);
• accredited by a renowned university (University of Cambridge)
• the students can buy a pack of lessons, according to their
needs;
• 16 levels, from Beginner to Upper Advanced;
• the learning environment also offers Language Assessments
and Sudent Tools
• the software used for conversation classes is Adobe Connect 8

11. Englishtown
CONVERSATION CLASSES
• group and private classes
• group classes: teacher is also a mediator
• teacher is able to upload power point
presentations, word documents, spreadsheets
• teacher can also write messages to the students
or highlight some words or sentences in their
documents and share his desktop

12. Englishtown - Adobe Connect 8.0
• information and general presentations
• online training materials
• web conferencing
• learning modules
• user desktop sharing
• meeting rooms are organized into 'pods'
• each pod performs a specific role (i.e. chat,
whiteboard, note, etc.).
• you have to buy it

13. Englishtown

14. Englishtown
English Town can be considered a good
example of virtual learning environment,
providing the students with a 100% on-line
English course. However, as it is also
important to hightlight that the focus is
basically the communication, so cultural,
society and critical aspects of language, are
many times not enhanced.

15. Conclusion
Educational Institutions - Virtual Learning Environment
Time and Results
Accessibility - Distance
Interactivity - Students access to computers
Communication - learning community, play-back
Virtual Learning Environment X Educational Website
Virtual Learning Environment X Virtual Campus

16. Conclusion
Virtual Learning Environment - Education
Collaborative Learning is effective if the group
members engage in rich interactions.
According to Agência Estado, only half of
Brazilian students have access to a computer.

17. ANHANGUERA BRIGADEIRO/SP
Uso de Novas Tecnologias Aplicadas ao Ensino de Língua Inglesa
Profa. Ms. Ana Julia Perrotti-Garcia
Maira Corvacho Reis Stella | Mariana Chiarion
Paula Carnasciali | Silene Cardoso | Veridiana Alberto