Where is your Personal Learning Environment? July 16, 2008
Posted by ramonmendias in Online Learning.Tags: Colloquia, eLearning, Elgg, learning, PebblePAD, peer-to-peer, PLE
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Oh my, what an exciting topic this turned out to be. I didn’t truly grasp the concept until finding a few good articles with interesting comparisons of the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) and the new Personal Learning Environment (PLE). Both have their pros and cons, but the PLE gives us such a rich gamut of information that WE control or customize to our learning styles.
The PLE is a learning convention that leverages Web 2.0 tools that we put in place and manage. This reaches far beyond the traditional e-learning type courses, we all are probably accustomed to. The VLE or traditional types can be very structured learning, can cost a lot of money, and all control the way we learn. Many VLE types control the window of time we have to absorb the materials. The static content for these can be uploaded to a server somewhere, and the content can be very old and outdated. As we have learned in the Web 2.0 world, content or information is available to us in MANY different formats. A PLE ties all of our favorite resources into an effective learning tool.
It’s very exciting to see that we may be looking at the classrooms of the future. With the PLE, your learning experience has no boundaries of who you learn from… everyone is networked together, regardless of where you live, what you drive, or your age…Incredible.
Alan J Cann, University of Leicester – What the heck is a PLE?
Michele Martin’s Top10 Learning Tools
