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Which forum to use?
DIR By: Neil
Date: July 17, 2012, 4:25 pm
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Hi, I'm a new student and have only just joined this forum (and
found it useful already, in particular, advice on how to
structure one’s studies), but I have a question about the
Subjects topics: I see that the University’s VLE has a "course
discussion forum" for each course, which looks like it may
duplicate what is here. Is that a new feature of the VLE? If so,
would it be better to use that instead? Likewise, doesn’t the
Stucafe provide a facility similar to the General category here?
I’m happy to go with whatever works best, but keen to avoid
duplication. Cheers, Neil.
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Re: Which forum to use?
DIR By: waveletter
Date: July 17, 2012, 8:42 pm
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Hi Neil:
Welcome to the UoL International Programme and thanks for
joining this closely related forum!
You raise a good point. UoL Philosophy has just modified the VLE
so that it shows My Courses and that seems to have a place for
discussion of a particular module. Not to long ago, though, all
that was there was the StuCafe, which sort of dumped all the
discussions into one huge list, with no categories by topic or
by module. So, Alejandra found this website and set up the forum
according to the Old Regulations courses. There never was much
module-related discussion on the original VLE, despite quite a
few posts from quite a few students.
Right now, all I can say is that I think the layout that
Alejandra created is more conducive to discussion of module
material and to general study-related problems. It's still
small, however. On the other hand, with the New Regulations,
this structure might become obsolete. Another thought is that
after you finish at UoL, the university might not continue your
access to the VLE, but here you can continue to interact with
your fellow philosophers. On the other other hand, this site
could attract cranks, and that's something that pretty much
can't happen on the VLE.
I don't know what's best or what will happen. One could argue
that (taking a point from the Epistemology and Aristotle
modules) no one knows anything about the future, because it
isn't yet true, so the VLE might turn out better and this place
might turn out better.
Any thoughts on this by the other students on the Forum? Thanks!
--Ron
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Re: Which forum to use?
DIR By: Neil
Date: July 19, 2012, 6:12 am
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Thanks Ron, those are good and valid points I think.
Neil
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Re: Which forum to use?
DIR By: waveletter
Date: July 29, 2012, 10:01 pm
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Hi Neil:
Yes, I wish that some more students would join in here.
Possibly, London could put a link to this forum on their VLE.
But, maybe they don't want to do that.
Also, it seems to me that they have altered my login information
so that I can no longer get into the VLE. I'm not sure if that's
a mistake or what, but I tried to send a complaint email, but
all I could do when I went to the crying page was enroll as a
new student. It seems like my user name itself has been
disabled. No grades. Now no login name. I think UoL does not
like me! Ha! Anyway, I'm working incrementally on the courses I
anticipate taking next year, and I'm happy that we've got some
good thinkers over here on Alejandra's forum that I can interact
with. Thanks and best regards, --Ron
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