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Anatomy of a PLE

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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. Now it's time to change direction a little and challenge the unhelpful binary of PLE versus VLE. What does a PLE look like?

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The personal web

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For those who don't, the institutional VLE (or sadly, no web based use at all) is an alternative. This may sound like a climb down from my position on the death of the VLE, but It is not. Where do you go it you want to learn something new? Certainly not the VLE. Unported License.

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

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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

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For those who don't, the institutional VLE (or perhaps no web based use at all) is an option. This may sound like a climb down from my position on the death of the VLE, but It is not. Image source Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. Tags: VLE PLE tagging horizon report personal web.

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Punk learning

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Punk learning (some would call it Edupunk ) reflects that seventies music ethos. For some time, educators have been subverting established methods and turning their backs on institutional tools and technologies such as the managed learning environment (also known as LMS or VLE).