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Everyone has one

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Why should we question whether students have the competency to build their own PLEs, when in fact most learners already have their own PLE structure of tools sorted out when they arrive at university. Unported License. So the question is problematic on at least two levels. It depends on what you mean by competency.

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#EDENchat Up close and personal

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I attended the first ever Personal Learning Environments conference in Barcelona, about 5 years ago, and spent three glorious days in the sun, learning from others about the PLE and how it would revolutionise learning. We were all excited about the potential of PLEs, their subversive nature and their inherent informality.

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Theories for the digital age: Self regulated learning

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Informal and self regulated learning are defining characteristics of 21 st Century education. A number of collaborative and social networking tools regularly play a role within the average student PLE. 2000) Informal Workplace Learning. Unported License. 2008) Does a community of learners foster self-regulated learning?

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Personal Hard Drive

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Thursday, June 14, 2007 Personal Hard Drive Mark Oehlert made some very sparky comments as he enters into the "raging PLE debate." (I Mark writes, "You wanna know what a PLE is? I said a similar thing in a comment on Tony Karrers blog the other day: Isnt the main tool of the PLE our very own little brains? United States License.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Be the Node

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First off, I have to say that this entire PLE conversation hasnt really sparked much for me. Maybe it was even "personal learning" before the term PLE came along. I dont see a traditional corporation every truly embracing the theme of PLE -- at least in the pure sense of the term "personal". It just seems like a no-duh.

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Reciprocity learning

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I watched this morning's PLE conference (#pleconf) unkeynote by Grainne Conole and Ricardo Torres Kompen, which was streamed live from Aveiro, in Portugal. Reciprocity learning by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Just saying.) Based on a work at steve-wheeler.blogspot.com.

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Blurring the boundaries

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I'm increasingly conscious of the blurring of boundaries between formal and informal learning contexts. The remaining 80 per cent of lifelong learning occurs as a result of informal, and often random kinds of learning experiences (Cofer, 2000). 2000) Informal Workplace Learning. Unported License. Unported License.

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