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User Groups: Tailored Solutions for Every Training Scenario

learnWorlds

What binds this diverse group together is the necessity for personalized learning experiences and streamlined management tailored to individual requirements. Your clients should have control over their training management, and you need a way to make this happen effortlessly.

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Anatomy of a PLE

Learning with e's

Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) do exactly what they say on the can - they are personal to each individual, created by them, owned by them, used by them within their lifelong learning. Some argued strongly for sole student ownership, vehemently opposed to any institutional meddling in a personal learning environment.

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The personal web

Learning with e's

Personal Web Tools (PWTs) are thought by some to be synonymous with PLEs (Personal Learning Environments) but the two should not be confused. With the Southampton PLE Conference #PLE_SOU at full throttle, I thought it would be a good time to reiterate my views on the personal web.

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The survival of higher education (3): The Social Web

Learning with e's

The Social Web challenges current provision There is a sense from many younger students that the institutional managed learning environments are not popular tools, because they fail in comparison to the more colourful, flexible and accessible social networking tools that are available for free on the internet.

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Dead personal

Learning with e's

I was also asked why I didn't use the term PLE (Personal Learning Environment). I have always believed in a hybrid solution and indeed use one in my own professional practice, but for the sake of the polemic momentum, I'm advocating that institutions seriously reappraise their use of the VLE (read 'managed learning environment').

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City of the dead

Learning with e's

I think that Managed Learning Environments are like Pompeii. They are doomed, because firstly, everything that you pay to do on an MLE can be done outside, on the web, for free. Secondly, the new generation of social networking students don't want or need to be managed. MLEs are in my opinion, cities of the dead.

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Opening plenary at Online Educa

Jay Cross

From knowledge management to identity management. Work time converging with free time (at least for successful people). Identity management. Attention management. Operating system for learning. store and manage files. Norbert Bolz , celebrity professor. Serious play. Paradise of work. Self design.

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