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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). Discussions happen over social media websites, online webinars and lectures are a common thing and mobiles keep us connected all the time. Forward to the year 2014.

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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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Blurring the boundaries

Learning with e's

Creating, organising and sharing content within a defined community of interest is the way forward, and all of these are achievable through social media. I have previously outlined my views on what a personal learning environment should contain - it's functional components, or the anatomy and physiology of a PLE.

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Blogging: Five of the best

Learning with e's

It's important to realise that the posts listed below have been amplified through social media, reposted and shared on various platforms, and also translated into other languages. Anatomy Of A PLE (>29,000 views) 9. Learning Theories For The Digital Age (>22,000 views) Reference Lessig, L. Lessig, 2005, p.

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Top 74 eLearning Posts from September 2010

eLearning Learning Posts

Four roles for social media in workplace learning - Clive on Learning , September 28, 2010 I write this as I travel to Birmingham to participate in a panel discussion with Nick Shackleton-Jones and Robin Hoyle on the role of social media in learning. PLE - “My PLE is where I store all my “keys” to the network.

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Theories for the digital age: Self regulated learning

Learning with e's

Self regulation of learning is thought to be a characteristic of individual students (Beishuizen, 2008) but increasingly can be contextualised within social learning environments. A number of collaborative and social networking tools regularly play a role within the average student PLE.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): and later Mark will try to figure out what is going on in the PLE debate.and fail.

Mark Oehlert

e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « Funny Funny (not safe for work) e-cards | Main | Three Panel Soul.required comic strip reading » June 13, 2007.and and later Mark will try to figure out what is going on in the PLE debate.and fail. You wanna know what a PLE is?

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