Personal Learning Environments are sets of tools designed to support the learning process and are closely matched to the needs of individual learners. They are intended to help the learner to identify learning goals, manage the learning...
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Personal Learning Environments are sets of tools designed to support the learning process and are closely matched to the needs of individual learners. They are intended to help the learner to identify learning goals, manage the learning process and communicate with relevant people.
A comment linked from http://www.knownet.com/writing/weblogs/Graham_Attwell/entries/6521819364 Blind alleys indeed. We all have PLEs, some are more efficient and effective than others. For most of us they are principally wetware; the processes and taxonomies and structures in our minds that organise what we know and what we learn.
The PLE concept aims at externalising some of these, makes them more explicit, more shareable, helps us to understand how and perhaps why we organise things... Read Full Story
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" Personal Learning Environments are systems that help learners take control of and manage their own learning. This includes providing support for learners to set their own learning goals
manage their learning; managing both content and process
communicate with others in the process of learning
and thereby achieve learning goals."
(Source: Wikipedia )
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The concept of “ personal learning environment ” represents the most recent evolutionary step in a... Read Full Story
I'm an invited speaker for the online PLE/PLN Symposium that has been organised by George Siemens and Stephen Downes for next week. I will be working in the Cork Institute of Technology in Ireland, and will be speaking via the Elluminate platform, next Thursday (15th October) at around 1600 BST. I'm looking forward to talking about my own concept of personal learning environments and personal webs in my talk which is entitled: 'It's Personal'. I will post my slides later on slideshare , but... Read Full Story
This semester I am teaching two courses: Internet Technologies and Computer Graphics. I will not conceal it from you that I classify myself as a technology woman :). So, I have fallen in love with technologies and strongly believe that they can support and organize our teaching/learning everyday life. In these courses I focus the students' attention on their Virtual Personal Learning Environment (VPLE) building as a starting point for the development of different skills and concentration of... Read Full Story
How is the educational landscape going to change in the near future? Which are the key trends and new directions which are going to influence the most we study, research and learn?
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New, decentralized forms of learning such as personal learning environments , non-traditional and more flexible approaches like just-in-time and informal learning , are bound to shape differently not just the way you learn but more than anything the way you think and... Read Full Story
There has been a lot of talk recently about PLEs (Personal Learning Environments) and everyone it seems, wants to know what they are, what they contain, or if they will replace current institutional VLE (Virtual Learning Environment) or LMS (Learning Management System) provision. No one seems to be able to agree on what a PLE is. I've heard several people complain recently that they can't find enough published research in the area of PLEs either. I simply point them in the direction of the... Read Full Story
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I'm an invited speaker for the online PLE/PLN Symposium that has been organised by George Siemens and Stephen Downes for next week. I will be working in the Cork Institute of Technology in Ireland, and will be speaking via the Elluminate platform, next Thursday (15th October) at around 1600 BST. I'm looking forward to talking about my own concept of personal learning environments and personal webs in my talk which is entitled: 'It's Personal'. I will post my slides later on slideshare , but... Read Full Story
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