PLE Diagrams. Learning Networks in Practice (.pdf) 5 points about PLEs PLNs for PLENK10 @ Dave’s Educational Blog. 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. Personal Learning Environments: Challenging the dominant design of educational systems (.pdf) Rita eden valencia may 2010. Couros - Developing Personal Learning Networks for Open and Social Learning (PDF)
EDUCAUSE: 7 Things you should know about PLE's (.pdf) Personal Learning Environments. Wiki.