PERSONAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT AND

NETWORK.

• WHAT IS PERSONAL LEARNING NETWORK?

• WHY DO WE HAVE TO INCORPORATE THIS TO OUR EDUACTIONAL SYSTEM?

• HOW CAN P.L.E AND P.L.N HELP TO TRANSFORM KNOWLEDGE?

• WHAT ARE THE FEATURES ASSOCIATED WITH P.L.E AND P.L.N’S?

• THESES ARE ALL QUESTIONS WE HAVE TO ASK OURSELVES AND ADDITIONALLY

WE HAVE TO COME UP WITH ANSWERS THAT ARE INNOVATIVE AND PROMOTE

CRITICAL THINKING.

• SO THE FOLLOWING PRESENTATION WILL DISCUSS AND EXPLAIN ALL THE

FEATURES ASSOCIATED WITH PERSONAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT AND IT WILL

FURTHER DISCUSS HOW PLE LEADS ONE TO DEVELOP HIS/HER OWN PERSONAL

OR PROFESSIONAL LEARNIG NETWORK.

WHAT IS A PLE?• A Personal Learning Environment (PLE)

is a facility for an individual to

aggregate, manipulate and share digital

artefacts of their on going 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.

• This allows learners to critically evaluate

and construct knowledge. In addition this

helps to produce learners which will be

innovative in applying the use of

technology in the work place.

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P.L.E allows Access to…..

• One-to-one computing such as the Maine laptop project,

now spreading rapidly

• One Laptop per Child This means everyone should

Have access to basic computer

Skills.

• Wireless access3G networks, WLAN… this should be used

to

Conduct research and search for new

information

• Of relationship and connections among peers and knowledge

• Of own opportunity for value-created involvement

I

Aware

• In engaging in informal knowledge exchange

• In revising/extending competence development objectives

II

Interested

• In individual or collaborative learning

• In social and knowledge network activities

• In pro-actively contributing own insights and expertise

III

Trying engaging

- To subject mater

- To peers and educators

- To another professionals

IV

Actively involved and connected

Personal competence development objectives

Competence development lifecycle in a

learning network (according Rogers)

THIS DIAGRAM SHOWS

ALL THE STEPS THAT

ONE SHOULD ATTAIN IN

DEVELPING A PLE.

PLE CHARACTERISTICS• Supporting learners in planning an 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. Moreover there should be a shared of learning experience instead of a lone study.

The Idea of the PLE…

http://www.cetis.ac.uk/members/ple/resources/edf.ppt

Open Source Applications

• Learning Management Systems

such as Moodle, Sakai, Bodington, A Tutor

• Development and Community Tools

such as LAMS, Connexions, ELGG, Drupal,

WordPress

• Supporting Software

such as Firefox, Thunderbird,

Open Office, Audacity

Open Educational Resources

• MIT’s Open Course Ware projectand the Open Course Ware Consortium

• Open University’s Open Courses

• OER initiatives Hewlett, Welcome, OECD, UNESCO

• Creative Commons and CC materials in Flickr, Yahoo, Google, Wikipedia, Wikiversity, etc.

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“…a form of knowledge and a pedagogy based on the idea that knowledge is distributed

across a network of connections and that learning consists of the ability to construct and

traverse those networks. “

PLEs 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.

Building PLE on start pages

Personal Learning Environment

More of the students who are deeply involved in the

subject matter of the course and think in perspective

are interested in:

more professional information

contact to experts and specialists

they joint to groups with special interests,

professional networks

they receive professional network services

they can discuss interests

stay informed

share knowledge

Professional Network Organizing

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Innovatorof

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matter, technologies, ho

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Create

Share

Commu-nicate

Connect

RSS feeds, links

Search engines

Blogs, wikis

Feel and look

Social book-

marking

Images/

AV

Chat/AV conference

Email, forum

Facebook/ Twitter/

Ning

To-do list, notes, comments

calendar

Design learning strategy

Plan activities

Perform activities

Document results, anal

yze

Share results, eval

uate

Choose technology/ application

Arrangeenvironment

Extend/modify environment

Share environment/ collaborate

Search

Gather Aggre-

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Productivity improvement

Customi-zation

Compo-nents, panels, tabs, widget

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Goals, needs, interests, motivation, problems

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WHY PLN?

• Overcomes isolation of online teachers/learners

• Supports knowledge construction through distributed nodes and networks

• Empowers learners to become self-led, independent knowledge seekers and creators

• Allows customization of learning paths specific to individual interests or needs

• It’s fun and you can take it with you!

WHAT IS A PLN?

• A personal or professional learning network (PLN) involves an

individual’s topic-oriented goal, a set of practices & techniques aimed at

attracting and organizing a variety of relevant content sources, selected

for their value, to help the owner accomplish a professional goal or

personal interest.

A Working Definition

PLN

EXAMPLE

Started the wiki

Announced it in the

blogosphere and

twitterverse

A growing and improving

collaborative document

(wiki)

THE

4 COMPONENTS OF A PLN

COMPONENTS OF A PLN

• Professional goal or Personal Interest

• Techniques & Practices (networking habits)

• Basis for Selection

• Infrastructure for attracting & organizing content from

network nodes

Personal Learning

Environment Personal

Learning

Network

Professional

Learning Network

Receive

professional

network services

Self-arrangement of

network services

Professional Network Organizing

PLE as part of Personal Learning Network and Professional

Learning Network

Conclusion

• A model for PLE building is proposed

• Social networks contribute to the processes by which learners meet and communicate, and pool, share, learn about and reuse their resources, knowledge and competencies

• PLE building is found to be a core for PLN and PLN deployment

• The transition from PLE to PLN is an important step that supports students to become self-organized and life-long learners

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