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ROLE – Responsive Open Learning Environments
Dr Alexander Mikroyannidis
Knowledge Media Institute
The Open University, UK
First a question...
How many of you have:
• Heard of a Personal Learning Environment (PLE)?
• Used a PLE?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hanspoldoja/4098840001 http://www.flickr.com/photos/petahopkins/2157928982
A PLE in action
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vyk_m0FrRG4
What is a PLE?
• A Personal Learning Environment is a facility for an individual to access, aggregate, configure and manipulate digital artefacts of their ongoing learning experiences.
• The PLE follows a learner-centric approach, allowing the use of lightweight services and tools that belong to and are controlled by individual learners.
• Rather than integrating different services into a centralised system, the PLE provides the learner with a variety of services and hands over control to her to select and use these services the way she deems fit.
PLE characteristics
• Supporting learners in planning and controlling their learning journey• Setting their own learning goals
• Monitoring their progress towards achieving these goals
• Managing their learning – both content and process• Enabling learners to aggregate resources and personalise their learning
environment
• Providing recommendations to learners about resources and other learners (‘study-buddies’)
• Collaborating with others in the process of learning• Providing support to learners for community building and collaborative
activities
• A shared learning experience instead of a lone study
The ROLE vision
• Empower the learner to build their own responsive learning environmentROLE Vision
• Awareness and reflection of own learning process Responsiveness
• Individually adapted composition of personal learning environment User-centred
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ROLE widgets in LabSpace
Learners aggregate and work collaborativelyon learning resources provided by the Open University (e.g. OpenLearn, iTunesU) and external sources (e.g. Wikipedia, SlideShare, YouTube)
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Thank you!
For more info visit:The ROLE project
http://www.role-project.euThe ROLE Showcase platformhttp://www.role-showcase.eu