Donald Clark left the following comment on my posting about personal learning environments: "The term PLE is, in itself, suspect. Personalised - OK but stating the obvious. Learning - well no, it's more about a two-way, working window - learning is at best a small part of it, a by product, not it's sole purpose. Environment - the PLE isn't the ... . Unlike Donald, I can see a usefulness in the term 'personalised learning environment' but not if this is restricted to the digital domain. As I describe in my previous post on the topic: "My personalised learning environment is ...

... traditional educational models: eportfolios and personal learning environments. Eportfolios have great potential, but little uptake. Personal learning environments have similar potential, but the concept is a bit difficult for educators to grasp. I ... Learning happens constantly. The formal education component receives more respect than informal learning. As content ... how institutions think about “tying together” the multiple learnings across our daily lives. Canadian Council on Learning introduces the multiple learning domains as “limitless dimensions of learning”. Two ...

... learning environments. I totally get the fact that many people see the PLE as a PERSONAL tool/method/lifestyle and I ... It seems to take a lot to get me blogging these days. Between Tony's not too subtle encouragement and the PLE (personal learning environment) debate I just have to get my thoughts on record. The debate seems to centering around two ... their own PLE would be that of encouraging lifelong learning while the company benefits from the competitive advantage ... has challenged us in the learning field to use PLE's ourselves to fully understand and appreciate their attributes ...

Environment (PLE) with capitals to mean a put together system that integrates and supports your personal learning and a personal learning environment (lower case letters, no acronym) as the set of tools you use to help yourself learn (likely not very integrated). I believe that we all have a personal learning environment ... we just are not necessarily conscious of it. Clive Shepherd - Personal learning environments Also uses the lower case definition when he tells us ... There's been quite a bit of discussion going on around Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) and personal learning ...

... using the term Personal Learning Environment (PLE) with capitals to mean a put together system that integrates and supports your personal learning and a personal learning environment (lower case letters, no acronym) as the set of tools you use to help yourself learn (likely not very integrated). I believe that we all have a personal learning environment ... Personal Learning Environments and personal learning environments : eLearning ... Environments (PLEs) and personal learning environments. We talked about this briefly during a session with Tony ...

... nbsp;         A PLE (personal learning environment) is: a system that helps learners take control of and manage their own learning. This includes ... environment (VLE) or learning management system (LMS) , such as Blackboard or Moodle, is: a software ... controlling how you learn. A PLE is about giving you control over how you learn.   Web 2.0 > ... What the heck is a PLE and why would I want one? What the heck is a PLE?

Personal Learning Environments. It hits the mark with quickly talking about history of recent communication, informal formal learning and what PLE's are. A surplus of this video is the comic book feel it is designed in. If you are ... Graham is that he shares what he learns, it is really great material. And here is the movie I mentioned. It is really handy as an PLE intro, or at least I think so.

... of how our digital lives are spread all over, and the idea of a PLE is quite compelling. Michele's post My Personal Learning Environment is GREAT! If you are new to the whole idea of PLEs then you should check out a PLE in action. I know Stephen mentioned that a PLE doesn't actually exist yet, and I would only agree in that a single PLE tool does ...

Ray Sims has a great post on Personal Learning Environment and personal learning environments . His diagram and description that states that we not only each have our own personal learning environment, but that we are interconnected in ... Learning AND a loosely-couple optimized environment for Doing. I agree with his overall goal, but I'm not sure I separate ... don't agree on two environments - Doing and Learning should be the same. Am I doing or learning right now? Ray goes on ... have an easy-to-get-started-with PLE that easily integrates with others in the same learning community, while also ...

The present and future of Personal Learning Environments (PLE ... Personal Learning Environment ( PLE ), remains elusive. Conception about what should constitute a PLE depends on the ... definition is intended to introduce the general nature of PLEs: a Personal Learning Environment is a facility for an ... with the DIY approach to organising the scattered pieces of their learning environment, companies would rather see a PLE ... ). Personal Learning Environments . Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies ...

The Wales-Wide Web Graham Attwell on Learning, Knowledge and Technology Personal Learning Environments - continuing the conversation 07-May-2007 permalink Slides and audio of presentation on Personal Learning Environments I am in Odense, Denmark ... gave a presentation on Personal Learning Environments. The presentation focuses on the different ways in which people are ... :  Personal Learning Environments: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download ...

Networks: Part 2 growing changing learning creating: If this is your first PLE Personal Learning Environments ... Social Network Operating Systems Personal Work and Learning Environments (PWLE) - More Discussion Personal Work and Learning Environments PWLE Not PLE - Knowledge Work Not Separate from Learning Learning and Networking ... Effective Personal Learning Knowledge Work Environment Personal and Group Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools Needed ... Technology The Inevitable Personal Learning Environment Post Derek's Blog: More on MLEs and PLEs Personal Learning ...

The Social impact of Personal Learning Environments This may not be ... Personal Learning Environments 1. Personal Learning Environments â?? cause and effect Although the Personal Learning Environment (PLE) is a very new term, (van Harmalen (2006) argues the first recorded use of the term is November 4 ... Harmelen describes Personal Learning Environments as â??systems that help learners take control of and manage their own ... intertwined with judgement and exploration.â?? This paper examines the social impact of Personal Learning Environments. In ...

... knowledge workers (including myself), there should be no separation between my Personal Learning Environment (PLE), my ... I've been reading a lot over the past few months around Personal Learning Environments and a lot of related material ... different tools. Take a look at a few of the following for examples: My Personal Learning Environment Ray's Personal Learning Environment Reaching Nirvana in my Personal Learning Environment Personal Learning Environments - the future ... and Answers on Peronal Learning Environments: Yes, I do have my own PLE, comprised of a 'mash up' of different ...

... create personal work learning environments. Enterprises that love PLE's Cross battles Downes: is corporate learning ... Blogging Inside or Outside the Corporate Firewall Stephen Downes Personal Work and Learning Environments (PWLE) - More Discussion Jay Cross - Semantics & the first place Personal Work and Learning Environments PLEs are power tools Be the Node The Psychology and Skills of Personal Learning Environments Stephen Downes PLEase Stop Corporations aren't Allowed to be Personal This has made me wonder... if people will adopt ...

I have been thinking about ways to merge many of the functions of corporate learning systems with social networks in organizations. It appears that Dave Pollard is pondering the same question and in my opinion he has made some very valid points about why social media and web 2.0 has not yet translated into personal learning environments or enterprise 2.0 ... depicting some of the challenges of making a personal learning environment work in an enterprise setting. He also states that ... that learning management systems (LMS) need to adapt to be more like social networks while incorporating the ability ...

I've run across a few different posts talking about Personal Work and Learning Environments which I have tentatively ... wonderful post - The Psychology and Skills of Personal Learning Environments and it's definitely worth looking at some of her ... the tools for personal learning and how we use them. There's a great deal of discussion about whether or not a PLE should ... work and learning. This is much like all the discussion around personal productivity tools, but in this case it is more ... , as part of a larger ecosystem. This is talked about a bit in Personal and Group Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools - ...

Learning Environment (PLE) exists, but actual PLEs only exist as theoretical combinations of skills, methods and tools. The concept of a Personal Learning Environment Framework gets it even farther from some actual system. There will be ... structure is not going to work. I mentioned quite a while ago (in Personal Work and Learning Environments (PWLE) - More Discussion and Personal Work and Learning Environments ) that: Knowledge work is not separate from learning. Yes ... not make sense to look at using one environment (an LMS or PLE) as part of learning and another environment as part ...

This continues the discussion being had around PLE/PWLEs - see More Discussion on Personal Work Learning Environments ... , for free rangers, and for learning from everything of personal interest. And they are not, therefore, PLEs. A PLE that ... about Personal Learning Environments: So all the talk about tools and maps has struck me as odd. How do we quantify or ... here and help some folks. Certainly posts like Michelle's wonderful - My Personal Learning Environment or even my ... on Personal Work Learning Environments where he juxtaposes Jay Cross's comments : Pitting individuals ...

... the efficacy of designed formal learner-content interactions. While each learner’s personal learning environment ... Interaction Matrix: Essential Elements of a Socially Constructed Learning Environment November 18, 2007 ... fostering a socially constructed learning environment. What follows is the rationale for this model that can serve to help guide the design and development efforts of meaningful and memorable learning environments. At the core of the interaction matrix are the essential elements of the learning environment: content, learner, instructor, ...

8221; might be a better description, especially as we move to more learner control, personal learning environments, and Web ... (hopefully) help people build their personal learning environments, it’s not quite the traditional course. I’ ... Via a post I found through Workplace Learning Today , Rob Wilkins asked whether “instructional ... formal, instructor-led learning. Wilkins focuses on the “designer” part of the title in his post. He says ... implies formal learning: a teacher or trainer in front of a classroom or a self-paced tutorial where learners ...

... in online learning environments In General on 5/10/2004 at 6:26 am Online learning environments (OLEs) are now critical to teaching and learning across Australian higher education. Their influence impacts ... learning online who have â??described the potential of the medium as an interactive environment that would enable ... successful communication Facilitating effective communication online contingent on different online learning environments ... decade, educators have, in many cases, been left with fewer choices of teaching and learning environment than ...

... posts on personal learning environments (PLE's). The other person I mention is Michele Martin at The Bamboo Project . Her posts about PLE's have transformed how I use and think about the web for my own professional development. ... It was interesting to listen to beginning portion of the podcast Straight Talk with Bob Phillips where they discuss my article in T&D Learning and Networking with a Blog. From their post: In the opening segment, Aaron and I talk about Tony Karrer's article in T&D magazine, Learning and Networking with a blog . Here is a post on Tony's ...

... many of you use a LMS for your personal learning?". Surprise. No hands. Quite true. Social technologies are different. Blogs and wikis are already being implemented by learners themselves. Call them Personal Learning Environments ... Learner WANT an LMS? ). No student would use the current so-called learning environments during their worktime or ... Interesting post ... Horizontal technologies for learning ... In the eLearning sector many vendors have created eLearning solutions primarily for educational institutions. These technologies are supposedly designed for learning but ...

... traditionally created by faculty. Then there is the personal learning environment or PLE. In a PLE learners take ... PLEs- Personal learning Environments - learner created and learner-controlled - this is where I see adult education going ... other tool, technique or resources that helps a learner meet their learning styles and golas. The key here is that a PLE is ... over their learning environments and when, where, why, and how they learn. So at face value it appears that LMSs and ... learning environments. Is there a middle ground where learners can take advantage of PLEs and institutions can still get ...

... visualization of this. I think that folks who are in the Personal Learning Environment (PLE) space have a much better idea of what will come next. In fact, many of us have all created our own Personal Learning Environment by cobbling together using a variety of tools (RSS Reader, Bookmarking, Social Networking, Desktop Search, Web Search, Personal Learning Blog ... learning environments. In fact, I believe this to be one of the bigger questions that we face as an community. ... world of the Learning Management Systems (LMS). They are rapidly growing features that are far beyond what anyone ...

Stephen Downes commented on my recent post - Personal Work and Learning Environments (PWLE) - More Discussion and said - I am opposed to the trend coming from the corporate learning side of the house to treat PLEs as work tools. What is it about people in corporate learning that they feel the need to perpetuate the attitude of servitude it seems ... we call them personal learning environments is that they are indended to serve our needs, not someone else's. It ... many corporate environments. Stephen's very much correct about a PLE being for the person. It is going to be a ...

Personal Learning Environment An example of a PLE 26. Project Management and E-Learning: MORE is Worse ... 88. eLearning & Deliberative Moments: The present and future of Personal Learning Environments (PLE ... 62. The Art of Building Virtual Communities (Techlearning blog) 63. Personal Learning Environments Wiki - JITT 64. The Wales-Wide Web | Personal Learning Environments 65. Innovate: Collecting ... . The Bazaar - Bazaar project " Personal Learning Environments 73. Podcasting and education - White ...

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