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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. Yet the average institutional Managed Learning Environment is by nature dull, uninspiring and difficult to navigate.

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

Learning with e's

The power of this kind of social media is that it includes all in the process of creating group based collections of knowledge, and artefacts that are of specific interest to the learning community. One of the most popular activities on our wiki based learning programmes was called ‘goldmining’.

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Opening plenary at Online Educa

Jay Cross

You are not going to turn passive consumers into active participants on the internet. How many like learning? teaching has not changed; learning has changed. From knowledge management to identity management. Operating system for learning. store and manage files. Michael took screenshots.).

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