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The evolution of personal learning environments

Origin Learning

A personal learning environment refers to the tools, technologies, resources etc. By and large, this constitutes John’s Personal Learning Environment (PLE). Corporate Learning Management Systems must be empowered with features that enable such social learning, and thus add another dimension to employees’ PLEs.

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#EDENchat Up close and personal

Learning with e's

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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Personalised learning

Learning with e's

What schools should be doing is assessing for learning - providing students with personalised feedback on their performance referenced against their own previous personal attainment - what we refer to as ipsative assessment. Reference Campbell, R. British Journal of Educational Studies , 55 (2), 135-154. Unported License.

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Blogging: Five of the best

Learning with e's

I haven't given up on peer reviewed publishing, but I have turned away from closed journals and publications toward openness and accessibility. Anatomy Of A PLE (>29,000 views) 9. Learning Theories For The Digital Age (>22,000 views) Reference Lessig, L. Ten Characteristics Of Authentic Learning (>34,000 views) 7.

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Theories for the digital age: Self regulated learning

Learning with e's

A number of collaborative and social networking tools regularly play a role within the average student PLE. This is an excerpt from a forthcoming publication entitled: Personal Technologies in Education: Issues, Theories and Debates] References Beishuizen, J. 2008) Does a community of learners foster self-regulated learning?

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The boy done good

Learning with e's

One of my third year students, Dan Kennedy, has had his first article published in a new journal. The Plymouth Student Educator , a peer-reviewed online journal has been created to showcase the best of University of Plymouth students' work. Reference: Kennedy, D. The boy done good.

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Top 74 eLearning Posts from September 2010

eLearning Learning Posts

Ellison’s generic PowerPoint and inept delivery ultimately inspired a brilliant post from Garr Reynolds where he referred to him as “The Darth Vader of PowerPoint.”. HOLD THE FRONT PAGE - PLE’s need Teachers - Learnadoodledastic , September 23, 2010 Call it a PLE if you like, to me it is connectivist learning.