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The personal web

Learning with e's

With the Southampton PLE Conference #PLE_SOU at full throttle, I thought it would be a good time to reiterate my views on the personal web. Personal Web Tools (PWTs) are thought by some to be synonymous with PLEs (Personal Learning Environments) but the two should not be confused. Sound like a PLE? Almost, but not quite.

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Top 10 virtual classroom platforms

Ed App

A comprehensive reporting suite allows for training staff to recognize learner improvement and also sees which users are falling behind. This platform gives learners a lot of agency in their education, as they can construct their own personal learning environment (PLE). One more thing worth mentioning is learner tracking.

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Dead personal

Learning with e's

I was also asked why I didn't use the term PLE (Personal Learning Environment). The report goes on to define personal webs as self created and consisting of online tools that suit each individual's unique preferences, styles and needs. Sound like a PLE? Tags: VLE PLE tagging horizon report personal web.

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Too Hot for eLearning

eLearning Weekly

So, I imagine the ideal Personal Learning Environment (PLE) — a utopic arrangement of computer, desk, mouse, beverage, snack, window, lamp, and whatever else at whatever temperature at whatever time, wherever suits the learner best. In a flight simulator, you can control the environment — make it shake or even make it hot!

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Top 74 eLearning Posts from September 2010

eLearning Learning Posts

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. PLE - “My PLE is where I store all my “keys” to the network. Is your PLE Deliberate? What is the Purpose of your PLE? The destination is the PLN.&#.

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Blurring the boundaries

Learning with e's

Much of random informal learning suits the human mind, because it differs so much to linear forms of learning that predominate the formal learning environment of school, college and university. It's not an 'either/or' equation, and I don't want people to think I am advocating doing away with schools and formal learning. Every learner has one.

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Using SharePoint

Tony Karrer

In some ways then, SharePoint is well suited to supporting eLearning 2.0. There are some definite challenges to getting SharePoint set up right, rolling it out in smart ways, helping people the right way, etc. Possibly its smarter use of Outlook that's the intent from a Microsoft vision of supporting the knowledge worker.