Personal Learning Environments

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... [more]

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Personal Learning Environments: What They Are And How To Implement Them

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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) Photo credit: Yuri Arcurs The concept of “personal learning environment” represents the most recent evolutionary step in a learner... Read Full Story

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Stephen Downes: Learning Networks and Connective Knowledge

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Learning Networks and Connective Knowledge by Stephen Downes, October, 2006. ‘The purpose of this paper is to outline some of the thinking behind new e-learning technology, including e-portfolios and personal learning environments. Part of this thinking is centered around the theory of connectivism, which asserts that knowledge - and therefore the learning of knowledge - is distributive, that is, not located in any given place (and therefore not ‘transferred’ or ‘transacted’ per se) but... Read Full Story

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Clark N. Quinn: Seven Steps to Better E-learning

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Seven Steps to Better E-learning. ‘Too much of e-learning is inadvertently designed to minimize effectiveness. Online courses often fail to engage the learner’s interest and what we know about how people learn isn’t applied, among other problems. Remember that the desired outcome of a learning intervention is a change in behavior; it’s all about doing, not learning. Our goals for any such learning initiative, then, should be to sustain that change over time. What follows is a distillation of... Read Full Story

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Reusable Learning Project

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The Reusable Learning Project is concerned with digital learning resources, resources in digital format that are intended for use in learning. These include Web-based content, digital documents, applets and software, simulations, data sets, interactive learning environments and multimedia resources. The project’s goal is to increase the value and impact of digital learning resources by making them easier to reuse, or to modify for reuse, in multiple contexts and in multiple learning... Read Full Story

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Nick Kearney's views, 08-June-2006

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Linked from http://www.knownet.com/writing/weblogs/Graham_Attwell/entries/6521819364Blind 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 one way rather... Read Full Story

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What is a PLE?

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I was looking for a definition of PLEs and found this quote helpful. Feel free to add additional information about PLEs here.

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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.

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Linked from http://octette.cs.man.ac.uk/jitt/index.php/Personal_Learning_Environments