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Personal Learning Environments
ComETS Emerging TrendsFeb. 19, 2009
Jeff BohrerDoIT Academic Technology
What’s the Problem?
EmailNewsletters
Magazines
Headlines
Meetings
Conversations
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Learning is not exclusively formalExperiencesProfessional developmentConversation/Process
What is a Personal Learning Environment?Part applicationPart philosophy
What is a Personal Learning Environment?
“PLE is a tool that allows a learner to engage in a network of people, services, and resources.”
- Stephen Downes
Key Components of a PLE
Content aggregationCustomizableRSSMini-appsProduction tools*Links to our community networks*
UW System eLearning task force, 2008
Today’s LMS
PLE
UW System eLearning task force, 2008
What is today’s PLE?
RSS reader?Personal portal?Web browser?Laptop?
“...enabling you to scan, organise, remix, and republish entries from your feeds to everything from Twitter to bibliographic databases”
getfeedforward.org
elgg.org
Challenges for Campus ITEnsure flexible learning systemsAdvance web servicesPromote community networksModel engaged participation
Learn@UW and Moodle
Participate!
For further exploration“Web 2.0, Personal Learning Environments, and the Future of Learning Management Systems” ECAR Bulletin June 2008
Stephen Downesdowns.ca (search “PLE”)
Google: Personal Learning Environments