Personal Learning Environments - what they are and why they might be useful

Presentación realizada por Graham Attwell y Adryan Puscuta en 2007

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Personal Learning Environments - what they are and why they might be useful

(Schools out). Personal Learning Environments - what they are and why they might be useful

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Personal Learning Environments: The future of education?

Presentación creada por Graham Attwell en 2009
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Personal Learning Environments: The future of education?

Personal Learning Environments: The future of education?

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Presentación realizada por Graham Attwell en 2006
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Personal Learning Environments

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Blog Implementation Model in Higher education

Artículo escrito por Terry Anderson en mayo 2009
Virtual Canuck Teaching and Learning in a Net-Centric World
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Blog Implementation Model in Higher education

was pleased to read a recent article that creates a framework for use and adoption of blogs in higher education.The article is Kerawalla, L., Minocha, S., Kirkup, G., & Conole, G. (2009). An empirically grounded framework to guide blogging in higher education. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 25(1). I normally wouldn’t link to or blog about the article as it is walled in a proprietary garden, but the special issue on Social Software and learning in the Journal of Computer Assisted Learning is available (at least today) as a free sample.

The Framework consists of general considerations related to the functionality of the blog, its use relationship with other course tools and its role in pedagogy. The Framework then presents a raft of question to guide planning and implementation. The Framework is a good start and asks many of the detailed questions that will lead to much better, or at least more thoughtful implementation of blogs in formal courses.

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PLE’s versus LMS: Are PLEs ready for Prime time?

Artículo escrito por Terry Anderson en enero 2006

Virtual Canuck Teaching and Learning in a Net-Centric World

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PLE’s versus LMS: Are PLEs ready for Prime time?

I’ve been trying to get my head around the viability of moving educational programming from institutionally centered Learning Management Systems (LMS) systems, or even institutionally owned and controlled educational social systems like Elgg or Barnraiser, to a distributed and likely syndicated set of tools often referred to as Personal Learning Environments (PLE). The recent postings by Leigh Blackall, response by Dave Cormier and the work of Paul Trafford and his RAMBLE project at Oxford got me thinking. James Farmer’s pioneering 2004 work applying our Community of inquiry to blogging and Michael Hotrum’s comments on that work are also incorporated in the ideas below.

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The present and future of Personal Learning Environments (PLE)

Artículo escrito por Ron Lubensky en diciembre de 2006
Deliberations Reflecting on learning and deliberating about democracy

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The present and future of Personal Learning Environments (PLE)

This post is recast from an assignment I completed about four months ago in a Masters Degree course entitled Innovative Practice and Emerging ICT, in which I investigated what PLEs are meant to be and where they might be going. It was originally part of a class wiki.

Contents

1. Introduction
   
2. Towards a Definition
   
3. Driving Forces
   
4. Developments to Date
   
5. Barriers
   
6. Future Potential
   
7. References
   
8. Web Links

Introduction

A definition for the term Personal Learning Environment (PLE), remains elusive. Conception about what should constitute a PLE depends on the perspective of the commentator. For example, the priorities for a PLE are different for a tertiary student, a university administrator, an instructor, a working professional, or an adult who persues an eclectic path of lifelong learning. Metaphorically, an individual may engage in a learning process that is either more acquisitional or participatory (Sfard, 1998). There are inconsistencies across these positions about what a PLE should do. But whether constructively and defensively, interest in PLE appears to be growing.

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If this is your first PLE

Artículo escrito por Tom Haskins en diciembre 2007
Growing changing learning creating Insights, options and possibilities suggested
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If this is your first PLE

Yesterday, Kevin Prentiss asked me to provide some concrete steps for launching a PLE. In one sentence, I'd say "think up some personally meaningful questions, search for some juicy RSS feeds, subscribe to them in your feed reader and set-up access to that reader for when you're wireless or on your cell". Here's a longer version of some concrete steps to launch a PLE:

Personal learning environments are very different from completing school assignments or complying with a job description. A PLE is something we make up on our own because we feel like doing it. We learn what we want to learn without formal instruction or training. PLE's are not about jumping through hoops. When we figure things out on our own, they make much more sense to us than something we were taught.

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