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Personal Learning Environments Stephen Downes September 25, 2008

Personal Learning Environments

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Discussion of some of the principles of the personal learning environment with a look at my own gRSShopper software as well as the Connectivism online course.

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Personal Learning Environments

Stephen DownesSeptember 25, 2008

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What is my personallearning environment?

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• A place to store (and share) my photos

http://www.flickr.com

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• A place to store (and share) my videos

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4126240905912531540

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• A place to write an essay with mycolleague in Montreal

http://docs.google.com

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• A way to stay up to date - rightup to date

http://www.google.com/reader

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• A way to save on phone calls

http://www.skype.com

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• Knowing where I’m stayingbefore I get there

http://maps.google.com

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• An Easy Way To Draw Pictures

http://www.gliffy.com

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What do personal learningenvironments mean for learners?

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• A world of free learning resources…

Don’t like the word ‘free’? Deal with it…http://educationvault.blogspot.com/2008/08/zaidlearn-ocw-oer-lists.html

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Three Views of Learning Resources:

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1. Learning Resources as a thing–Book, content object, etc

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2. Learning Resources as events–Class, lecture, seminar, meeting

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• The first two models areinformation-theoretic andmedium-based models–They stress content–They stress rules

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3. Learning Resources as flow– Stresses experience– Stresses pattern recognition

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What does this look like?

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• User generated Content–Personal, opinionated

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• Network of interactions

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• Immersive Learning

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• New Roles– For students - as creators of learning– For teachers - as coaches and mentors– For the rest of us - as teachers

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• Web of user-generated content(eg. Wikipedia)…

http://www.wikipedia.org

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Learning as a networkphenomenon…

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Issues:

• Too much information, filtering info• Too many sources to scan, new

sources• Localization, personalization,

relevance

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Response: Network Semantics

http://epthinking.blogspot.com/2008/08/on-event-processing-network-and.html

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• Social networks and communities(entails a genuinely portable (andowned) identity

http://www.facebook.com

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• Networks of interactions(aggregate, remix, repurpose, feedforward) – syndication

An ecology…

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• The personal learning centre

http://blog.core-ed.net/derek/2006/11/more_on_mles_and_ples.html

Autonomy

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• The Network is Diverse –multiple views, multipletechnologies

http://flickr.com/photos/11242012@N07/1363575474

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• The Network is connected andinteractive (not ‘integrated’) –small pieces, loosely joined

http://www.biography.org.uk/real.htm

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• The Network is open

http://park.org/Japan/NTT/DM/html_f4/F4_10600_e.html

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What are the key technologies?

http://www.bclir.org/Egypt.htm

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Web 2.0 - Core Technologies

Tools for worldmaking…

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Social Networking

http://staffdev.henrico.k12.va.us/parents/socnetwork.htm

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Tagging

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Asynchronous Javascript and XML (AJAX)

Jesse James Garrett in February 2005.

https://bpcatalog.dev.java.net/ajax/textfield-jsf/design.html

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Representational State Transfer (REST)

- principles that outline how resources are defined and addressed- looser sense: domain-specific data over HTTP

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transferhttp://itpro.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/Watcher/20060315/232492/

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Application Program Interface (API) andMash-Ups

http://scenariothinking.org/wiki/images/b/b6/MashUpSysDiagramV6.0.jpg

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Javascript Object Notation (JSON)

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OpenID

http://gabinetedeinformatica.net/wp15/2007/03/09/openid-nuestra-identidad-virtual/http://www.funnymonkey.com/openid-in-education

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Thanks!

http://www.downes.ca