[EDTECH-1] Personal Learning Environment (PLE)

PLEASE FIND MY ASSIGNMENTS AT THE END OF THIS ENTRY.

1. What is PLE? 

"Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) are Web 2.0 and social media technologies that enable individual learners the ability to manage their own learning. Self-directed learning is explored as a foundation for the use of PLEs." (Haworth, 2016)

Haworth also outlined the optimal criteria for social media tools to be used as PLEs: "they must be easy to use, open, dynamic, and offer collaboration options."

2. Example of PLE

• Google account as a PLE (similar collection of the tools like o365)
• Blog as PLE
• Microblogging (e.g. Twitter) as PLE
• Image Sharing as a PLE
• Wiki as a PLE
• Personal Website as a PLE
• Hard Drive or Cloud Storage as a PLE
• Social Bookmarking as a PLE

Reference:

Haworth, R. (2016). Personal learning environments: A solution for self-directed learners. TechTrends, 60(4), 359-364. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11528-016-0074-z

3. PLE and self-regulated learning

Level 1: Personal information management corresponds to the forethought phase where planning, goal-setting and information gathering can be conducted and recorded.

Level 2: Social interaction and collaboration corresponds to the performance phase where sharing and pooling of and peer feedback on gathered productions, resources and reflections are encouraged.

Level 3: Information aggregation and management corresponds to the self-reflection phase where information and current states of students' personal and shared profiles and resources is evaluated by the instructor and learners with the aim to refine and restructure information to align them with learning goals. Self-reflection guides the commencement of a new cycle.

Reference:

Dabbagh, N., Kitsantas, A. (2012). Personal Learning Environments, social media, and self-regulated learning: A natural formula for connecting formal and informal learning. The Internet and Higher Education. 15 (1), p. 3-8.

4. Google Suite for Learning and O365 Education as PLE's

Office365 has a lot of tools for PLE purposes. Google Suite for education has integrated webstore where you can add different small tools to enrich your work/learning experience.

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MY ASSIGNMENTS: 

1. Design mindmap where you describe how different PLE parts are related to each other.

2. Create Adobe Spark presentation where you add that mindmap and explain PLE in the details.

 

Link: https://spark.adobe.com/page/BFim2M7IucBUG/

3. Embed Spark Presentation to your OneNote documentation and reflection portfolio (Done).

4. Share your Mindmap and Adobe Spark presentation links in the table in the excel sheet (Done).