I've run across a few different posts talking about Personal Work and Learning Environments which I have tentatively started to call PWLE - pronounced p-whale. Tom Haskins in PLEs are power tools and Cammy Bean in Be the Node tell ... wonderful post - The Psychology and Skills of Personal Learning Environments and it's definitely worth looking at some of her ... maps and basically what is your PWLE (p-whale) is that it's helpful for us to figure out how to support our own personal work and learning. This is much like all the discussion around personal productivity tools, but in this case it is ...

I never know what kinds of things to link to in my blog posts, but definitely if you've not been checking out Ray Sim's recent posts where he dives into how he uses different tools as part of his PWLE. Search Alert Tips LinkedIn del.icio.us Taking a look at some of his early posts around personal learning and doing environments is also time well spent if you are interested in learning how to learn. I love how Ray translates concepts into practice. He did similar things around informal learning a while ago. Good stuff Ray!

... 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 ... knowledge work. That's the reason I call these: Personal Work and Learning Environment (PWLE - pronounce p-whale) And ... 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 ...

... personal work learning environment (PWLE), will bring this issue front and center. Corporations could lose access to ... This continues the discussion being had around PLE/PWLEs - see More Discussion on Personal Work Learning Environments ... 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 ...

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 ... There's some great discussion happening around the issues of control and resulting ownership of work product as we create personal work learning environments. Enterprises that love PLE's Cross battles Downes: is corporate learning ...

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 ... Networks: Part 2 growing changing learning creating: If this is your first PLE Personal Learning Environments ... Technology The Inevitable Personal Learning Environment Post Derek's Blog: More on MLEs and PLEs Personal Learning ...

... measures today such as cost per learner hour. Focus on Personal Work and Learning Environments (PWLE) - More Discussion and Personal Work and Learning Environments . These challenges represent some pretty dramatic ... John Seely Brown and Richard P. Adler's recent article - Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning ... to finally write about what I see as a crisis in corporate learning. Background If you are not familiar with the ... of Sales. Impact How does this impact the world of learning organizations and corporate learning ...

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 all learners must adopt. We don't exist to work for a corporation; our learning, our minds , our most valuable asset of ... we call them personal learning environments is that they are indended to serve our needs, not someone else's.