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Limitless learning

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The personal learning environment (PLE) is still a bone of contention. Over at the Open University of Catalonia, in Barcelona, Ismael Peña-López has been doing some stirling work on theories surrounding Vygotsky's learning model and PLEs. For me, the PLE is peculiar to the individual who makes it. Unported License.

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Theories for the digital age: Self regulated learning

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A number of collaborative and social networking tools regularly play a role within the average student PLE. In many ways, heutagogy is aligned to other digital age theories, in that it places an importance on ‘learning to learn’, and the sharing rather than hoarding of that knowledge. 2000) Simple Moments of Learning. Goldsworthy, S.,

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Learning in a Digital Age: The myth and the reality

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In Learning in a Digital Age: The Myth and the Reality, I present a number of widespread beliefs about elearning, and challenge the provenance, reasoning and application of these theories. Learning in a Digital Age: The myth and the reality by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

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Blogging: Five of the best

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All this has been possible because they are all labelled as Creative Commons with a repurpose licence. Anatomy Of A PLE (>29,000 views) 9. Learning Theories For The Digital Age (>22,000 views) Reference Lessig, L. 2005) Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity. What The Flip? (>29,000

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The Melbourne set

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It was great talking again with Colin Warren (@colwar) whom I first met face to face in Barcelona at last year's PLE conference, and to feel intuitively that we are kindred spirits. I also enjoyed my discussions with Megan Colasante (@megacolour) about digital identity, anonymity and blogging as a professional practice.

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Content creation

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One of the most important digital literacies students require today is the ability to create appropriate content. Content creation is an important feature in many personal learning environment (PLE) models, and together with organising and sharing, makes up the cardinal triumvirate of skills that provides learners with a clear advantage.

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Is sharing caring? #OpenBlog19

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Together for two days, we discussed how digital technologies and networks could support learning. The event was called 'Show that you Share' and focused on tools such as Creative Commons , personal learning environments and mobile phones as a means of creating, sharing and repurposing content, knowledge and artefacts for education.