Merging Disparate Ways of Learning – From Collaborative Learning to

Personal Learning Systems

By Chuck Labrie

What does technology hold for the future of educational pursuits?

Technology has become ubiquitous within the

process of education

Connecting Learners

CollaborateOrganize

Tools to support collaborative learning

Data Repositories

Learning Management

Systems

People

Communication Services

The definition of educational technology has changed

in a direction determined by a social process

(Freeburg, 1999)

Learner Production andSharing of Knowledge

Web 2.0 Is A Two-Way Process

A New Resource Ecology

Share Ideas

Create New

Knowledge

Web 2.0 is a two way process, allowing the Internet to be used for creating and sharing

information and knowledge, rather than merely accessing external artefacts,

(Pontydysgu, p 4)

Consumers themselves become producers, through creating and sharing,

(Attwell ,2007)

Innovations [in educational technology] confront us with choice, not a destiny

(Freenberg, 1999)

Web 2.0 Is A Two-Way Process

Institutionally Centered Online Learning

Slowly we are coming to realise that we cannot simply reproduce previous forms of

learning – the classroom or the university

embodied in software ,(Pontydysgu, 2007)

Institutionally Centered Online Learning

Personal Learning Environments

Social Software Adapts To Its Environment Instead Of Requiring Its

Environment To Adapt To The Software(Pontydysgu, 2007)

a PLE [Personal Learning Environments] can be a manifestation of a learner’s informal learning

processes via the Web(Pontydysgu, 2007)

The emergence of PLEs is less about establishing a new path in online learning that it is a response to the

limitations of current online offerings(Martindale & Dowdy)

Personal Learning Environments

Informal Learning IsDisconnected From Formal

Educational Institutions(Pontydysgu, (2007)

Acceptance will entail a radical shift in the ethos of education

(Pontydysgu, 2007)

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