Virtual Learning Environments

This weekend I have had the unbridled joy of preparing for a 2-day course. This has involved a decade of hours plowing through an utterly turgid "virtual learning environment" or "VLE" which makes repeated utterly token attempts at "interactivity". This has made me want to submit examples of genuine multimeejah by e-mailing videos of myself swearing at the course designers to those responsible.

This particular bout of fury was brought on because I dutifully stopped listening to the background music which was keeping me sane because the VLE told me it was very important I had my sound on when I looked at the powerpoint. The sum total of the "multimedia experience" in the presentation was a single ambulance siren on the second slide. That was absolutely the only thing there I needed headphones for.