E-learning 2.0. Bridge to Learning - Educational Research. Ilona Buchem and myself have submitted a proposal, Diversity and Divide in TEL: The Case for Personal Learning Environments, for the workshop on TEL, The Crisis and the Response, to be held at next years Alpine Rendez-Vous. The digital divide cannot be discussed only as a gap between technology haves and have-nots. Below the inequalities in access and usage, there is also a problem of a divide between contexts, domains and communities that different learners operate in.
The need for empowered learners as citizens engaging in cross-boundary, problem-solving has been advocated as a necessary means for social innovation. It is through boundary-crossing or bridging the divides that individual and sociocultural differences can become a resource. However, mainstream TEL has not fully recognised the potential of boundary crossing and engaging diverse learners in collective action related to solving real life problems. Can promoting diversity through TEL be a response to crisis? Bridge to Learning - Educational Research. Preparations for the 4th International PLE Conference 2013 being held in Berlin, Germany together with a parallel event in Melbourne, Australia are well underway. the conference will take place on July 11 and 12 and the deadline for the call for submission of abstracts is March 4.
The PLE Conference intends to create a space for researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas, experiences and research around the development and implementation of Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) – including the design of environments and the sociological and educational issues that they raise. More than that the PLe conference has always prided itself on innovatory approaches to design in terms of involving participants.
This year will see the continuation of the unkeynotes, which Cristina Costa and myself discuss in the video above. And this year sees another experiment in moving away from the traditional reviewing process to an approach based on ‘shepherding’ or mentoring. 1. 2. 3. 2013-horizon-report-k12. Horizon Report Wiki - Personal Learning Environments. ERB0813. Fiedler_Vaeljataga_PLE2010_final. Professional Development Learning Environments (PDLEs) Embedded in a Collaborative Online Learning Environment (COLE) Professional Development Learning Environments (PDLEs) Embedded in a Collaborative Online Learning Environment (COLE) Moving towards a new conception of online professional learning Roland vanOostveen, Associate Professor François Desjardins, Associate Professor Shawn Bullock, Assistant Professor Faculty of Education University of Ontario Institute of Technology Background The problems associated with the initial education and on-going learning of professionals, such as teachers, are magnified in the absence of adequate technological resources.
Description In spite of profound, rapid changes in society such as the advent of high-speed access to the Internet and the inclusion of cell phones into most aspects of life, real reforms to the focus of education or the methods used by teachers have been slow to take hold in educational systems around the world. Conclusions Top. 201009vanOostveenDesjardinsBullockFullReport. Web2andfutureofschooling.pdf.
This Time It's Personal. Personalized Learning | Feature This Time It's Personal Truly student-centered learning has a lot of support in high places in education, but it can’t happen without the right technology infrastructure to drive it. By Jennifer Demski01/04/12 Educators have known for some time now that a one-size-fits-all approach to learning does not lead to the level of student engagement and academic success that schools strive to achieve. But, for the most part, schools have incorporated these 21st century instructional techniques and tools as add-ons to the teacher-centric 19th century classroom structure, in which the majority of the curriculum is pulled from a textbook, and, despite best intentions, most students learn the same thing in the same way at the same time.
But what exactly is personalized learning? In any personalized learning model, the student--not the teacher--is the central figure. Deliberations. 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 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. At the time of writing this introduction (August 2006), no particular product or service exists that can definitively be categorised as a PLE, although some prototypical work is in progress.
Towards a Definition The following definition is intended to introduce the general nature of PLEs: a Personal Learning Environment is a facility for an individual to access, aggregate, configure and manipulate digital artefacts of their ongoing learning experiences. Driving Forces In North America the commercial vendors of VLEs dominate. Barriers. The_construction_of_knowledge_in_personal_learning_environments._A_constructionalist_perspective. EdPractices_18. A Simple Comprehensive Guide on The use of Personal Learning Networks in Education. Personal Learning Networks, or PLNs, have been around for a long time. Originally they were your family, relatives and friends, or probably other educators and fellow teachers you work with in the same institution, but now and thanks to the development of web technologies and wireless connections, the concept of PLNs has been expanded to engulf people you have never met before in real world.
Much of the learning nowadays takes place online and via a network of interconnected relations. PLNs are basically based on the concept of a learning community. Teachers who are passionate about developing their learning experiences recognize the value of sharing their knowledge and expertise with others. They constantly seek out other learning venues that could be experts in their field or other professionals with whom they can exchange information.They, in short, become a part and parcel of a learning community of like-minded people.
Outline : What is a PLN ? What is a PLN ? Why PLNs in education ? Personal learning environment. Personal Learning Environments (PLE) are systems that help learners take control of and manage their own learning.[1] This includes providing support for learners to: Set their own learning goals.Manage their learning, both content and process.Communicate with others in the process of learning. A PLE represents the integration of a number of "Web 2.0" technologies like blogs, Wikis, RSS feeds, Twitter, Facebook, etc. around the independent learner. Using the term "e-learning 2.0", Stephen Downes describes the PLE as: "... one node in a web of content, connected to other nodes and content creation services used by other students. It becomes, not an institutional or corporate application, but a personal learning center, where content is reused and remixed according to the student's own needs and interests.
It becomes, indeed, not a single application, but a collection of interoperating applications—an environment rather than a system".[2] See More[edit] External links[edit] References[edit] Personal Learning Environment; Your Thoughts. I was honoured to be asked to moderate a session at the PLE Conference in Barcelona (#PLE_BCN on Twitter) to talk about what exactly is a Personal Learning Environment. In this session, myself and 3 other educators (Cristina Costa, Ilona Buchem and Wolfgang Reinhardt) that are located all over the world, will work with participants to figure out a definition for the PLE term.
My brother, Alec Couros, talked about PLN’s vs PLE’s in a previous post and it is definitely a great read to see how he used his PLE to further his own learning on the very same subject. The fact of the matter is that a mutually agreed upon definition will never happen but it is beneficial for educators to think about key components of a PLE and how they can use this to further their own learning. We are starting with the following visual with 4 key areas to help define a PLE (Learning, Content, Social Interaction, and Technology): I would love to hear your thoughts on this topic with some guiding questions: A Simple Comprehensive Guide on The use of Personal Learning Networks in Education.
Seven Strategies for Supporting Personal Learning Environments at Work. Yesterday I started to answer Glen Ross's question about how to support staff in developing and using personal learning environments (PLEs) by defining what I mean when I talk about a PLE. Today I'm getting to the real meat of Glen's question, which is how to support staff in creating and using their own PLEs. Nurture a Culture of LearningStaff have to feel that learning is part of their jobs and that the organization they're working for truly supports their professional development. I've written before about how to create a learning climate here and here and I think that without this critical component, PLEs are really dead in the water. As part of this process, I would also suggest helping staff understand and develop the skills of personal learning, which I think many of us lose along our way through academia and the work world.
And your organization will need to cultivate a tolerance for taking risks and making mistakes, assuming that it hasn't already done that. EdTechUK: Personalisation. The AoC NILTA responce to Personalising Further Education: Developing a Vision was the last substantial consultation I worked on for NILTA. During my time as their ICT and e-learning development officer, personalisation - what it might mean and how it might look within formal education - was one of my major focuses.
Initial Comments 1. Personalised learning underpins the programme of change outlined in the recent FE White Paper. This includes emphasis on effective assessment of initial learner needs, improving pastoral support, along with developing learner ‘voice and choice’ through participation and representation. The intention is to improve learner engagement, achievement and progression across the board and influence the shape of future provision.
Annex A after the jump. E-learning 2.0. Understanding Personal Learning Environments: Literature review and synthesis through the Activity Theory lens. Buchem, Ilona and Attwell, Graham and Torres, Ricardo (2011) Understanding Personal Learning Environments: Literature review and synthesis through the Activity Theory lens. pp. 1-33. In: Proceedings of the The PLE Conference 2011, 10th - 12th July 2011, Southampton, UK. This paper represents a scientific analysis of a broad range of publications surrounding the field of Personal Learning Environments (PLEs). Personal Learning Environments can be viewed as a concept related to the use of technology for learning focusing on the appropriation of tools and resources by the learner.
Capturing the individual activity, or how the learner uses technology to support learning, lies at the heart of the PLE concept. The central research question guiding this review was: What are the characteristic, distinguishing features of Personal Learning Environments? Repository Staff Only: item control page. ELI7049.
How_teachers_learn_20110908_165813_22. 5 points about PLEs PLNs for PLENK10. The concept of the Personal Learning Environment in all of its wondrous forms has been one that I’ve struggled with over the last four or five years that I’ve been familiar with it. I’m very excited to be taking part in the PLENK10 course in order to take the time to focus on these ideas and get a clearer sense of what I mean by the word. I would add, that I think this is one of the central values of an open course… it provides the opportunity to bring clarity to a subject in a field… even if we end up with different clarities The PLE related to the LMS (LCMS, VLE etc…) I came to the idea of the PLE as an alternative to the LMS (learning management system, blackboard, moodle, desire2learn etc).
There is a sense in which it is the opponent of the institutional sponsored and controlled LMS and as that I am quite fond of it as a student controlled alternative. POINT 1. Personal Learning Environment vs. POINT 2 – PLEs are (to me at least) the ecologies within which PLNs operate. Modelling PLE based learning. InWednesday's #PLENK2010 session Sebastian Fiedler gave us his thoughts and ideas on Personal Learning Environments. He moved the discussion from the technology to the concept and made us think about the personal learning, rather than the learning environment in PLE.
His model to analyse personal learning looked like this: During the discussion following his presentation quite a few questions were asked about this framework: would people move from 1 through a continuum to 5? How would this work? Of course while learners are going about their lives and are involved in activities that make that they learn, their personal development continues and I have found the Perry stages of development, as described in an earlier post, helpful in understanding how this might work.
PLE | Mediendidaktik. Plep [licensed for non-commercial use only] / Original list of PLE Publications. Continuing Professional Development: A Practical Guide for Teachers and Schools - Anna Craft. Web 2.0 and Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) | Learning Matters! Crazy week this week. First I was sick as a dog with some crazy bug where I could hang on during the day but at night I would get this killer sore throat that kept me up all night in bad pain. That would be OK except that this week I had to be in NY and Boston all in the one week. Anyway enough about me and my woes. Onto the good stuff….
I was fortunate enough to be asked to contribute at the e-Learning Guild in two different forums this week: Tony Karrer, hoodwinked Brent Schelenker, Steven Downes and yours truly to talk about Web 2.0 (and a bit of 3D) meets Corporate Learning — or if that is not what it was he wanted us to talk about it is certainly where it went. I’ve known Tony for a while….and I am a big fan of both Steven and Brent’s via daily reading of their Blogs. This is also one of the coolest things about Web 2.0 that we talked about on the panel. Time is on the same channel here: First, get an account on blogger and start to converse publically. Anyway enough about that. Browse by Events. Number of items: 73.
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Awareness and Reflection in Personal Learning Environments Reinhardt, Wolfgang and Ullmann, Thomas Daniel (2012) Awareness and Reflection in Personal Learning Environments. pp. 2-8. In: Proceedings of the The PLE Conference 2011, 10th - 12th July 2011, Southampton, UK. Reinhardt, Wolfgang and Mletzko, Christian (2012) Awareness in Learning Networks. pp. 12-20. Ferguson, Rebecca and Buckingham Shum, Simon and Deakin Crick, Ruth (2012) EnquiryBlogger – Using Widgets To Support Awareness and Reflection in a PLE Setting. pp. 28-32. Rajagopal, Kamakshi (2012) Supporting Network Awareness: easing learners’ journeys or challenging them to see? Ullmann, Thomas Daniel and Ferguson, Rebecca and Buckingham Shum, Simon and Deakin Crick, Ruth (2012) Designing an Online Mentoring System for Self- Awareness and Reflection on Lifelong Learning Skills. pp. 34-42.
Session 01 Session 02 Session 04 Session 05 Session 06 Session 08 Session 09 Session 10. PLE Conference 2012. 5 points about PLEs PLNs for PLENK10. PLE Conference 2012. Tablet Enhanced Learning Environments. Empowering Personal Learning Environments at NCeL! Personal Learning Network. Final-report-20092. AITD_PLN_final. Ple2010_submission_23. Bridge to Learning - Educational Research. Bridge to Learning - Educational Research. Your Personal Learning Environment. Personal Learning Environments. E-learning 2.0. Personal Learning Environment; Your Thoughts. What is a PLN? Or, PLE vs. PLN? Dissertation-Couros-FINAL-06-WebVersion. File1. Hr2013. Breaking Down to Rebuild: Redefining the Innovative Classroom. Ple2010_submission_88.pdf. Web2andfutureofschooling. Spotlight-on-personalized-learning-sponsored.
From-field_35_1. Index. What do you understand as a Personal Learning Environment (PLE) in your everyday practice? Services Canada | CSC | IT Reports. Aded5050_project. ERB0813. Fiedler_Vaeljataga_PLE2010_final. Becta_2007_emergingtechnologies_vol2_report. ALT-C 2007 template - Powered by Google Docs.