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.
"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 …