What the expert have to say about what a PLE is

What do the experts have to

say?

Stephen DownesSenior Researcher at the National

Research Council of Canada

[…] It becomes not an institutional application, but a personal learning center, where content is reused and remixed according to the student’s own needs and interests…it is an environment rather than a system

Mark van HarmelenResearch fellow in Computer Science at

Manchester University

[…]are systems that help students to take control of and manage their own learning…It maybe composed of many subsystems as such it maybe a desktop application

Jonathan MottAdjunct professor of instructional

psychology and technology at Brigham Young University, Utah

[…]an educational manifestation of the web’s small pieces loosely joined

George SiemensExecutive director of the Learning

Innovation and Networked knowledge Research Lab at the university of Texas

[…]a collection of tools brought together under the conceptual knowledge of openness, interoperability, and learner control. As such they are comprised by two elements: The tools and the conceptual notions that drive how and why we select individual parts.

Graham AttwellAssociated fellow, Institute for

Employment Research, University of Warwick and Gastwissenschaftler at the Institut Technik und Bildung University,

Bremen

[…]there was no consensus on what PLE might be…it was not a software application it was more of a new approach to using technologies for learning

Summarising Learning center that help students take control Sub-system, application, a part of a bigger

thing Collection of tools and conceptual knowledge

coming together to craft a space to learn A new approach to using technologies for

learning An ecosystem of connected resources