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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What the heck is a PLE and why would I want one?

Presentación realizada por Alan J Cann en 2007
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Personal Learning Environments

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qué demonios es un PLE

Artículo escrito por Carlos Castaño Garrido en junio de 2008
Weblearner.info Edublog colectivo sobre teleformación, LLL, TICs, enseñanza y aprendizaje

¿Qué demonios es un PLE, y para qué querría yo uno?.

Esa es la pregunta que se hace Alan Cann, profesor de la Universidad de Leicester, en el Reino Unido. Y además intenta responderla con un tutorial muy bien planteado.

Nos lleva de la mano distinguiendo primero un PLE (Personal Learning Environment) de un VLE (Virtual Learning Environment) hasta situarnos en la Web 2.0 a la que presenta como el sitio natural para construir Entornos de Aprendizaje Personales.

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Die LMS die! You too PLE!

Artículo escrito por Leigh Blackall en noviembre de 2005
Learn Online Things to do with network learning, flexible learning, and online learning.
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Die LMS die! You too PLE!

I've been thinking about the PLE (Personalised Learning Environment) project, and Scott Wilson's recent presentation Architecture of virtual spaces and the future of VLEs

The PLE project recognises the fundamental flaws in Virtual Learning Environments or Learning Management Systems (VLE, LMS), but falls short in its vision of an alternative. At this stage in the project it is suggesting that the PLE be a desktop application for a student (sounds a bit like my old Perfect LMS idea) or a singular portal online.

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Personal Learning Environments

Artículo escrito por Mark van Harmelen en junio 2007
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PLEs and me 2

Nicola considers what a PLE is in a recent post. There are a few replies I might give, but first I'll note that I'll avoid disappearing into a philosophical quagmire on the three levels of description that the concept provides. Perhaps more on that in another post for those consumed by fervor along the lines of "its a concept" vs. "its a system" (and mea culpa here, sometimes ).
The PLE movement sprung up from a wave of disenchantment with VLEs and the centralised control model of education that they represent. Instead, an informing philosophy was learner empowerment, taking responsibility for one's own education. In parallel with this learning was seen as a social act, that significant learning (or, even, all learning) occurs in a social context -- even the act of learning something from a book on ones own is social, because language and shared understanding underpins and enables such 'solitary' learning experiences.

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