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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)

Sharing learning experiences in ROLE

http://vimeo.com/25817690

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Thank you!

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