Continuing my search to find out more about new techniques for eLearning has brought the PLE, the Personal Learning Environment, to my attention (see previous posts on PLEs).  In short the PLE seems to be an update to the VLE, but with a greater emphasis placed on the student and the learning materials, and less on [...

adoption is getting folks to manage their personal knowledge and adopt practices like blogging for personal knowledge management (PKM) and personal learning. 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...?

my final point was that we each needed to become better learners. That's exactly what Stephen, Tony O, and Brent said during our panel. When Stephen and I are agreeing on something ... 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...

Donald Clark left the following comment on my posting about personal learning environments: "The term PLE is, in itself, suspect. Personalised - OK but stating the obvious. Learning - well no, it's more about a two-way, working window - learning is at best a small part of it, a by product, not it's sole purpose. Environment - the PLE isn't the environment, the internet is.

Graham Attwell and Andryan Puscuta have published a great video on Personal Learning Environments. It hits the mark with quickly talking about history of recent communication, informal formal learning and what PLE's are. A surplus of this video is the comic book feel it is designed in.... The great thing about Graham is that he shares what he learns, it is really great material. And here is the movie I mentioned. It is really handy as an PLE intro, or at least I think so.

His requirements for a PLE Framework include: Personalization Social features Social filtering I ncorporate various Web 2.0 concepts and technologies (mashups, widgets, aggregation, OpenID, RSS, etc.) Flexibility and extensibility Web browser platform Aggregation/Mashups Ease of use Several thoughts jumped out at me: The concept of a Personal Learning Environment (PLE) exists, but actual PLEs only exist as theoretical combinations of skills, methods and tools....

injenuity Home Viral Professional Development Switcher Home > VPD > The Job of Personal Learning The Job of Personal Learning October 26th, 2008 Goto comments Leave a comment I do a lot of thinking about personal learning in digital spaces.... This led me to wonder if these are the same challenges faced by people joining digital personal learning spaces.

It seems to take a lot to get me blogging these days. Between Tony's not too subtle encouragement and the PLE (personal learning environment) debate I just have to get my thoughts on record....) there should not be question since companies can't own learning. There might be proprietary knowledge but we are not discussing knowledge management, we are discussing learning environments.

Two approaches are possible to serve as the glue to pull learning together in a manner that can be accredited or evaluated by traditional educational models: eportfolios and personal learning environments. Eportfolios have great potential, but little uptake. Personal learning environments have similar potential, but the concept is a bit difficult for educators to grasp...Learning happens constantly. The formal education component receives more respect than informal learning.

I have to set up my own personal learning environment to augment what the course designer created. My PLE includes talking to other experts, reading blogs, googling, tweeting for help, and blogging. Additionally, I don’t stop learning about that topic once the semester is over...? Isn’t it important to help facilitate informal learning so learners continue to learn even after they have attended a class? Authored by gminks . Hosted by Edublogs . ...