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Personal Learning Environments: What They Are And How To Implement Them

Written by on Friday, June 15th, 2007 in informal learning, teaching, social media, Online Collaboration, Learning-Educational Technologies, Social Networking, Learning - Educational Technologies.

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"Personal Learning Environments are systems that help learners take control of and manage their own learning. This includes providing support for learners to set their own learning goals manage their learning; managing both content and process communicate with others in the process of learning and thereby achieve learning goals." (Source: Wikipedia) Photo credit: Yuri Arcurs The concept of "personal learning environment" represents the most recent evolutionary step in a learner-centered approach to education. "A PLE may be composed of one or more subsystems: As such it may be a desktop application, or composed of one or more web-based services." Personal Learning Environments integrate both formal and informal learning approaches into a single experience. The PLE concept can trace its origins …

Learning Independence: New Approaches For Educating The Net Generation

Written by on Friday, May 4th, 2007 in networking, informal learning, Online Collaboration, Social Networking, Learning-Educational Technologies, education, Learning - Educational Technologies.

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A new generation of students, those born with the Internet already on, has recently begun entering the world-wide school system with a set of characterizing traits and unique learning interests that presents a true challenge to existing educational institutions. Photo credit: piksel The students of the net generation comes in fact to the educational system with a strong desire to learn and comprehend, often developed thanks to previous exposure to the net and to the personal experiences of self-discovery, personal search and critical thinking that the Web has offered them. This is a generation of goal-oriented, cautious, pragmatical students who sincerely care about their education in ways we have not seen happen in previous generations. "Having been raised in an …

Web 2.0 Takes On Colleges And Universities: The Dawn Of Education 2.0

Written by on Friday, April 20th, 2007 in economy, informal learning, Online Collaboration, Learning-Educational Technologies, Learning - Educational Technologies.

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Web 2.0 is changing the way colleges and universities interact with their students. Photo credit: Nikolay Okhitin In the shift from an intellectual economy of push, to one of pull, the evolving participatory media are making their impact felt . It is no longer enough to pump out information like gasoline and expect authentic learning to take place - the new generation of learners demand to be engaged, active and part of a collaborative knowledge building community. Here\’s why: \’\'The online MySpace community has ballooned to more than 160 million members in just a few years. Over 200,000 new members sign up each day; it is one of the most visited Internet sites in the world. The social networking site …

Learning Paths, Collaboration Tools, Social Software: A Video Interview With Teemu Arina (Part Two)

Written by on Thursday, April 19th, 2007 in networking, blogs, informal learning, conversations, formal learning, social software, wikis, Learning-Educational Technologies, education, Social Networking, Online Collaboration, Learning - Educational Technologies.

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Teemu Arina: "Key enemies? Well, nowadays when the world is so networked and so complex I think that those people who I might think are ideologically my enemies are really also potential people to cooperate with, so there is no meaning with having a conversation with those who agree with you. Teemu Arina So those who are enemies are actually the most important resource for you to learn and reflect on your thinking, because they bring such different points of view in a conversation, so I can\’t point to any single enemy." While informal and mobile learning were the themes of the first part of the video interview with Finnish futurist and learning scholar Teemu Arina, in this second round …

The Future Of Learning Is Informal And Mobile: A Video Interview With Teemu Arina

Written by on Thursday, April 12th, 2007 in networking, blogs, informal learning, conversations, formal learning, social software, wikis, Learning-Educational Technologies, education, Social Networking, Online Collaboration, Learning - Educational Technologies.

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What does the future of learning look like? Thanks to my good friend and senior corporate learning researcher and independent writer Jay Cross, I have had the good fortune of meeting Teemu Arina, a young Finnish educational scholar, with lots of good ideas, a fully working brain and a vision for the future as only a few are able to crystallize. Photo credit: Robin Good video interviewing Teemu Arina in the park of S.Angel Castle in Rome I found Teemu to be a true thinker, and one that does like to stretch the definitions of what is possible and what\’s not. Open-minded and capable of evaluating viewpoints different than his, he is also a pragmatical individual understanding the true limits …