Professional Development (PLE)

• This workshop will:

– Overview additional information about PLE (Show examples)

– Ask them to construct their current PLE and be creative

– Share their PLE and discuss tools and behaviors

– Discuss ways in which students can benefit from creating PLEs

Using PLEs

Sue Waters - 5 top tools for a PLE (http://suewaters.wikispaces.com/)

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.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Learning_Environment

PLE - A Longer Description

The PLE represents the integration of a number of "Web 2.0" technologies like blogs, Wikis, RSS feeds, Twitter, Facebook, etc.— around the independent learner. Using the term "e-learning 2.0," Stephen Downes describes the PLE as: "... one node in a web of content, connected to other nodes and content creation services used by other students…. It becomes, indeed, not a single application, but a collection of interoperating applications—an environment rather than a system"

Downes, S. "E-learning 2.0", National Research Council of Canada, October 17, 2005

PLE – of an Instructor

Alec Couros, PhD Thesis illustration, the Networked Teacher - http://educationaltechnology.ca/couros/580

PLE – They can Complement an LMS

David Delgado's PLE diagram http://eduspaces.net/davidds/weblog/193187.html

Scott Wilson's PLE and the Institution image - http://eduspaces.net/scottw/weblog/212041.html

PLE – They can Complement an LMS

PLE – They can Complement an LMS

The Personal Research PortalIsmael Peña-López (2008)

PLE – Connected and Personalized Learning

http://terrya.edublogs.org/2007/04/30/on-groups-networks-and-collectives/

Group Network Collective

Activity Collaborative Projects Discussion and Queries Data Mining, Individuals Submission, Search and Query

Tools Threaded Discussions Chats

Mailing Lists, Blog Syndication, MySpace

Search Engines, Social Apps, i.e. 43 Things

Goals Accreditation Formal Learning

Knowledge Generation Knowledge Extraction

Time Frame Semester Real Time to Short Term – Asynchronous

Long Term – Asynchronous

Commitment to Participate

High Often Assessed Medium – As Needed None

Motivation to Contribute External Professional Reputation None

Metaphor “Virtual Classroom” “Virtual Communities of Practice”

“Wisdom of Crowds”

Expectations to Help High, Often Mutual Dependence

Mid, Share and Share Alike Ethos

Low/None, Unconscious Aggregation

PLE – Connected and Personalized Learning

http://terrya.edublogs.org/2007/04/30/on-groups-networks-and-collectives/

PLE – How Can They Be Used by Students

Fernando Santamaría/Concepción Abraira (PLE from my PhD) http://www.concepcionabraira.info/aplicaciones.htm

PLE – How Can They Be Used by Students

Katherine Pisana - My PLE and 3 Sub PLEs oriented towards specific learning networks

PLE and the Future