BLE History
History
The BLE collaboration was established by LSHTM (the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine), the RVC (Royal Veterinary College) and SOAS (the School of Oriental & African Studies) in 2004, and was joined in 2005 by the IoE (now known as the UCL Institute of Education), Birkbeck in 2007, University of London in 2015 and UCL in 2019. The BLE's core services have been to provide mutual benefits, including shared technical support, pedagogical expertise, cost efficiencies on licence fees and collaborative funding opportunities. The BLE partners also share costs for remote hosting of the learning platform Moodle, freeing up dependency on IT infrastructures and support internally. Each partner has its own unique Moodle site but they are managed under a common licence.
The BLE collaboration was established by LSHTM (the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine), the RVC (Royal Veterinary College) and SOAS (the School of Oriental & African Studies) in 2004, and was joined in 2005 by the IoE (now known as the UCL Institute of Education), Birkbeck in 2007, University of London in 2015 and UCL in 2019. The BLE's core services have been to provide mutual benefits, including shared technical support, pedagogical expertise, cost efficiencies on licence fees and collaborative funding opportunities. The BLE partners also share costs for remote hosting of the learning platform Moodle, freeing up dependency on IT infrastructures and support internally. Each partner has its own unique Moodle site but they are managed under a common licence.
I'm proud to support and chair this valuable and successful collaboration.
Jonathon Thomas, Associate Director of Learning Solutions at University of London Worldwide and Chair of the BLE
Brief timeline including milestones of organisational development
