AWARENESS AND REFLECTION IN PERSONAL LEARNING
ENVIRONMENTS WORKSHOP AT THE PLE 2011
CONFERENCEFIREHOUSE INTRODUCTION
Thomas Daniel Ullmann, Rebecca Ferguson, Simon Buckingham Shum - Knowledge Media Institute, OU
Ruth Deakin Crick – University of Bristol
Designing an Online Mentoring System for Self-Awareness and Reflection on Lifelong Learning Skills
In other terms:
How to map an established face-to-face mentoring system to an online system.
ELLIMent: Supporting Life Long Learning Skills Online
Online Mentoring. Based on the ELLI
(Effective Life Long Learning Inventory).
Awareness: Representation of seven learning power dimensions.
Reflection: Exchange of reflections between mentee and mentor and vice verse.
Reflection history.
http://kmi.open.ac.uk/technologies/name/elliment
Challenges of this research What elements of face-to-face mentoring
are essential and realizable as an online tool.
Using ELLIMent in a PLE scenario. What makes a good mentor if everyone can be
your personal mentor? Can we build a system which connects you with
the right mentor?Can learning paths help to reflect on life long
learning skills? Analytics: How to detect support needs.
What should we focus on during this workshop?
Awareness and Reflection Components Design patterns Vision sharing Fun
Research agenda for the next five years Applications - the reflection corner: Enabling every learner having
access to reflections on a topic of interest, to share own reflections, and to get feedback on them.
Reflection and perception:Reflective writing seems to be a tedious process. How can we make it more fun?The language of public reflections.
Theory - the relation between awareness and reflection:What is worth to reflect on? There are many things we can be aware of, but which are worth to reflect on?
Design: Design recipes, to foster reflection Methods: Evaluation of informal awareness and reflection systems. The role of feedback and skills: How important is the role of a
mentor? How much guidance is needed? Vision building: Towards an aware and reflective learner.
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