From his posting , Stephen Downes sounds like he didn't really enjoy giving his talk on personal learning environments here in Boston yesterday, what with all that having to connect with "corporate e-learning industry types". I can ... personal learning? Perhaps Stephen was suggesting something much more, but I didn't quite understand what it was. Perhaps ... -based learning and there's a great deal of good thinking and practice that has arisen from a more educational context ... with what a personalised learning environment might be over and above what I already have now. Donald Clark makes ...

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 ... window onto the web, for all sorts of interesting purposes, only one of which is learning. I really can't conceive of anyone wanting a tool like this just for learning, except perhaps a full-time student, and even then it seems ...

Chris Brannigan of Caspian Learning alerted me to Cognitive Fitness , an article by Roderick Gilkey and Clint Kilts in the Harvard Business Review, which you can download online for US$6.50. The byline to the article gives you the ... studies bit! Nevertheless, if true, this validates the validity of learning through observation and through play; it also ... a new language, learn to paint, use new technologies, learn a musical instrument. Why I'm keen on all this is because ... , you need a proper work-life balance. The opportunities for informal learning are severely restricted if your life ...

In my quest to realize a Star Trek-ian society within my lifetime I wish to promote free tools, eLearning tools at that. One of the great recent repositories is Jane Hart's Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies. Everyone could build a repository with free eLearning tools, but she did it by distilling the top 100 tools that were provided to her by expert eLearning colleagues from all around the world. While surfing to her list, you get a nice bonus: each tool has a small tutorial linked to it. Nice. The top 10 free tools lists Firefox, delicious, Google reader, ...

Image via Wikipedia WHY #2 : Social Learning Personalizes Learning. The next verb of Social Learning is that it will personalize your learning.  I don't know how many training classes I have been to that I was told ... ! (or so) So we need to ask ourselves, who's agenda is it that a person learns a particular subject or information.  If ... is discovered by the learner. Like BarCamp, social learning is personalizes the learning to the individual, not to the ... washers.  The learning happened how I needed it, when and in the amount I needed it.  No more, no less, perfectly personalized ...

Personal Learning and Personal Learning Environments As part of the recent discussion on personal learning and personal learning environments, I went back to find my posts on these topics and on personal knowledge management and related. Personal Learning Environments and personal learning environments The future of learning is personal learning PKM and Personal Learning Personal Learning for Learning Professionals - Using Web 2.0 Tools for Personal Learning Improving Personal Learning - A Continuing Challenge for Learning ... Do Learning Professionals Make ...

There's been quite a bit of discussion going on around Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) and personal learning ... Downes - Personal Learning I can talk about webs and networks and personal learnings and PLEs but there's a disconnect ... . When Stephen and I are agreeing on something ... Note: Stephen and I don't agree on 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 ...

Learning Trends eLearning 2.0 LMS Web 2.0 Enterprise 2.0 Personal Learning Informal Learning ... Personal Learning Environments and personal learning environments : eLearning Technology Theres been quite a bit of discussion going on around Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) and personal learning environments. We talked about this briefly during a session with Tony ODriscoll ... blog posts on the topic: Stephen Downes - Personal Learning I can talk about webs and networks and personal ...

Interesting post by Harold Jarche on PKM and Informal Learning . His sentiments echo much of what I've been saying around Course and Courseware Fading - The Future of eLearning and Improving Personal Learning - A Continuing Challenge for Learning Professionals . I'm looking forward to seeing more and more help emerge in how we can become better at our own learning so we can turn that around and help people in our organizations become better learners.

... 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 ...

... nbsp;         A PLE (personal learning environment) is: a system that helps learners take control of and manage their own learning. This includes providing support for learners to set their own learning goals, manage their learning, manage both content and process, and communicate with others in the process of learning. In contrast, a virtual learning environment (VLE) or learning management system (LMS) , such as Blackboard or Moodle, is: a ...

Social Network Operating Systems Personal Work and Learning Environments (PWLE) - More Discussion Personal ... With A Blog (T+D article) Personal Learning Strategies Personal Learning Learning Systems EPSS and ePerformance Personal Learning for Learning Professionals - Using Web 2.0 Tools to Make Reading & Research More Effective Personal Learning Knowledge Work Environment Personal and Group Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools Needed Skills for New Media eLearning 2.0 - An Immediate, Important Shift The Fischbowl: Creating Personal Learning ...

I've been reading a lot over the past few months around Personal Learning Environments and a lot of related material ... knowledge management (PKM) and personal learning. What this has come to make me realize is that for the vast majority of knowledge workers (including myself), there should be no separation between my Personal Learning Environment (PLE), my ... I doing? All. Maybe there are some distinctions between personal knowledge management, personal learning and ... different tools. Take a look at a few of the following for examples: My Personal Learning Environment Ray's Personal ...

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 ... personal learning support - but starter versions that head you in the right direction longer term. Great stuff Ray. ... Learning AND a loosely-couple optimized environment for Doing. I agree with his overall goal, but I'm not sure I separate Learning and Doing. In fact, the ideal in most cases is that learning is set up as doing. When I was a professor, ...

I was able to sit in on a session this year and I so listened to Stephen Downes talk about PLEs. I've been following Stephen for a couple years and so it was a pleasure and honor to not only hear him speak, but to sit on a panel discussion with him (I'll cover more on the panel discussion in another post). But reading The Bamboo Project blog reminded 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 ...

Reports | Vol. 52 | No. 8 | Aug. 3, 2006 Growth of Online Personal Learning ... learning technology environment at UBC in five-10 years time is daunting. What makes UBC unique is not the technology itself, but how we, in the words of Trek 2010 , “support innovative teaching and create new learning experiences ... the Internet expand from a network of silo-ed content sources to nurturing personal spaces (weblogs, electronic portfolios) where we maintain a social presence, and personalized content and communications are brought to us. The ...

... yesterday a new scope seminar started on personal learning environments . and an online conference on the future of education started at the University of Manitoba. all this accessable knowledge... viva Web.

... 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 ...

... trying to do in: Personal Learning for Learning Professionals - Using Web 2.0 Tools to Make Reading & Research More ... I just saw Harold Jarche's post: Adult Learning - pressing issues and where the field is headed, in two sentences . His two (actually three) sentences: The overwhelming majority of the learning needs of Canadian adults are not addressed by formal training and education. In this post-industrial era, adults today require self-directed learning skills to ... tools and strategies for adults to learn in a networked information society. I tend to agree that while day-to-day ...

Found via Jack Vinson - 9 Mistakes That Can Kill Your Personal Growth - definitely worth a read. But I read it with the context of Personal Learning . The 9 mistakes are: Thinking you already know everything Being confused by the marketing hype Not taking action Giving up Worrying about/listening to what others think Dabbling with it Having unreasonable expectations Failing to/not wanting to (at least start to) understand yourself Not taking ... in the end, you have to take the steps in real life. This is exactly why folks will say that they learn ...

A couple of interesting recent posts and my experience in my Collaborative Learning Class has me thinking about the usefulness of Tags both personally and in workgroups. From Bill Ives - Where Tagging Works and Where Tagging DoesnÂÂ't Work ÂÂ- Search Engine Lowdown I guess I tend to agree with Danny Sulliivan about the tagging and search ... be found at What are the Personal Benefits of Tagging? - One thing that the most useful of these reasons all have in common is that they allow the user to express tags using personal vocabulary. I personally have found that because ...

... person; and he does it through blogging. In May 2008 his book "ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure ... !). Darren recently got interviewed by Dan Shawbell who is an expert in personal branding. As the world becomes smaller recognition on the basis of a clear identity (or personal brand if you like, I know it is not exactly the same, maybe ... really good in personal marketing and we get our names posted everywhere. Others - with equal knowledge in our own field of ... to the expertise I would like to be known for). Now I know I am not good in personal marketing, but I want ...

Having just come back from DevLearn (which rocked; my hearty thanks to all participants and organizers), and now engaged in the Corporate Learning Trends conference (free, online), I’m seeing some repeated themes, and interests.  It’s a busy time, since we ‘re deeply engaged in the latter, but some messages are coming through so ... , and came up with some interesting points.  At the personal level was to be nimble, strategic, and develop yourself.  Tony ... to be done here, I reckon. These topics are being discussed at the Corporate Learning Trends social site this ...

Learning , Personal Learning Environments , eLearning 2.0 , all of them point that personal learning (or self-directed ... would assume that anyone reading this blog post is likely in the top few percent in terms of personal learning, but I would question whether you've thought about how this could help others improve - or how are your personal learning ... personal learning. By this, I mean specific suggestions, specific skills, pragmatic advice. I'm looking for Lifehacker for personal learning. I'm going to try to post specific advice and suggestions on this blog and have in the past ...

... learning by resorting to the ultimate killjoy that is science. You can guess which side I'm on. No-one doubts that learners differ in terms of personality and preferences, but whether these can be usefully categorised as learning styles ... than their personality and preferences, for example: their motivation to learn the subject in question (if the ... (brought to my attention by Stephen Downes ) added fuel to the fire. On the one side are the learning and development ... nature of the learning to be achieved (concepts, principles, rules, facts, social skills, psychomotor skills, ...

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 ...

Learning Trends eLearning 2.0 LMS Web 2.0 Enterprise 2.0 Personal Learning Informal Learning ... Tools and Strategies for Personal Learning : eLearning Technology ... suggestions like I was trying to do in: Personal Learning for Learning Professionals - Using Web 2.0 Tools to Make Reading ... Tools and Strategies for Personal Learning Permalink: Tools and Strategies for Personal Learning ... does not exist in the field of learning. For the working person, the tools we use, the environment in which we work, ...

I've run across a few different posts talking about Personal Work and Learning Environments which I have tentatively ... work and learning. This is much like all the discussion around personal productivity tools, but in this case it is more ... 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 ... , as part of a larger ecosystem. This is talked about a bit in Personal and Group Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools - ...

Sunglasses/ Tags: spyglasses video first person tutorial capture assessment mlearning m-learning mobilelearning “mobile learning” mobile-learning Authored by Leonard Low . Hosted by Edublogs . ... Early last year, Sue Waters of the Mobile Technology in TAFE podcast posted her video about the use of “spy glasses” (glasses or sunglasses with a built-in video camera), and how these can be used for recording first-person ... workplace hazard. If you have a particular need for capturing portable, mobile, first-person video for an ...

Questions for Learning Professionals. Online will suffer more than in-person from lack of preparation. The flip side is ... Lisa Neal asked a great question in a comment on Learn Trends 2008 - Free Online Conference : What do you see as the main differences between in person and online conferences? I have a bunch of random thoughts on this and I'm hoping ... rapidly increase and will slow down in-person conferences Prediction 2 - Smaller, targeted, short-burst, rapidly planned conferences will emerge. Now, don't get me wrong, I still very much like to do in-person conferences. I ...