From his posting , Stephen Downes sounds like he didn't really enjoy giving his talk on personal learning environments here in Boston yesterday, what with all that having to connect with "corporate e-learning industry types". My main difficulty was in trying to come to terms with what a personalised learning environment might be over and above what I already have now. I can understand that, but if I were Stephen I wouldn't give up, because his perspectives really are valuable in the context of work-based learning and there's a great deal of good thinking and practice that has arisen

The series looks at three different ways of creating a social learning environment - for free or at low cost: Tags: Social learning environment I've just completed the third in a series of 3 articles for Inside Learning Technologies magazine .  0160; The first two appeared in the November and December editions, the third will appear in the Conference Edition in January - but you can preview it here.

There's been quite a bit of discussion going on around Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) and personal learning environments. Note: Stephen and I don't agree on using the term Personal Learning Environment (PLE) with capitals to mean a put together system that integrates and supports your personal learning and a personal learning environment (lower case letters, no acronym) as the set of tools you use to help yourself learn (likely not very integrated). We talked about this briefly during a session with Tony O'Driscoll , Brent Schelenker , and Steven Downes at the eLearningGuild.

I've been reading a lot over the past few months around Personal Learning Environments and a lot of related material. What this has come to make me realize is that for the vast majority of knowledge workers (including myself), there should be no separation between my Personal Learning Environment (PLE), my Personal Knowledge Management system, and my day-to-day set of tools that enhance my knowledge worker productivity. I can't claim that I really understand What sparks this post is the combination of a recent post by Stephen Downes that includes a brief exchange with Jay Cross in the comments and some interesting discussions in the Enterprise 2.0

Tags: virtual immersive environmen Here is a companion post to two previous posts on the topic: Alternatives to Second Life Alternatives to Second Life Continued If you know of more, please feel free to add in the comments section. web.alive Short "flyby" of Nortel's web.alive. This is Nortel's entry into the 3D space. web.alive is an enterprise ready, network secured virtual world platform designed to solve business problems of working together over distances in real time and the costs associated with travel and training on complex equipment or in hazardous areas.

Personal Learning and Personal Learning Environments As part of the recent discussion on personal learning and personal learning environments, I went back to find my posts on these topics and on personal knowledge management and related. Personal Learning Environments and personal learning environments The future of learning is personal learning PKM and Personal Learning Personal Learning for Learning Professionals - Using Web 2.0 Tools for Personal Learning Improving Personal Learning - A Continuing Challenge for Learning ... Do Learning Professionals Make the Worst Learners? More Questions on Making Learning for Learning Professionals More Effective Personal Learning for Learning Professionals Tools and Strategies for Personal Learnin

To benefit from the power of electronic tools in supporting learning, we need to be effective at setting personal goals and crafting a personal learning environment . learning_environment web_2.0 If you read some of the predictions for 2009  that were compiled by Lisa Neal Gualtieri at eLearn Magazine, you may have noticed that people foresee a resurgence of informal learning, especially in new, e-mediated forms.  But let’s be cautious. 

In his remarks, Brent reinforced my own view about the viability of open source-based e-learning development; he said that I truly do believe that there are enough OpenSource tools out there that we can be creating completely opensource learning solutions/environments. thanks for keeping the Open Source movement alive in eLearning. Thanks Brent! Now, on with the show. As discussed in a previous post, we can say that there are certain unresolved philosophical matters surrounding the notion of open environments; I will return to these presently. I received an unexpected but nonetheless very welcome comment on yesterday's blog post from Brent Schlenker.

Today's post flows nicely from yesterday's post on one type of Personal Learning Environment, Alltop, a site where you are able to aggregate your blog interests in one area. The The difference today however is that I'm writing about my very OWN personal learning environment, a personal website, michaeleury.com , that I have published only in the last few days! OK, what is a personal learning environment? For me it is a place where I park my ideas and knowledge, links and reading resources, it is a bit like a slice of my brain on the web! I've shown the site to a few friends and

Donald Clark left the following comment on my posting about personal learning environments: "The term PLE is, in itself, suspect. Environment - the PLE isn't the environment, the internet is." It seems that what Donald is describing is essentially a customised home page, an individualised window onto the web, for all sorts of interesting purposes, only one of which is learning. Unlike Donald, I can see a usefulness in the term 'personalised Personalised - OK but stating the obvious. Learning - well no, it's more about a two-way, working window - learning is at best a