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Three Flavors of PLEs
PLE Conference, Southampton, July 11-13, 2011
Barbara Krumay, Felix Mödritscher (speaker)Vienna University of Economics &Business, Austria
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Agenda
1. Seeing PLEs through the glasses of different disciplines
2. Flavors of PLEs
a. Educators and psychologists
b. Technologists
c. Community facilitatory
3. Model and method to characterize PLE developments
4. Example, discussion, and conclusions
1. Different disciplines influence PLE development!
Personal Learning Environments (PLEs): parts of a digital ecosystem with different ‘species’ (learners,
tools, technologies, artefacts etc.) and their interactions breaking up with traditional paradigms and focussing on new
aspects (peer-to-peer architectures, openness, self-organization, networked collaboration etc.)
yet strongly varying solutionapproaches, depending on thecommunity driving thedevelopment (researchers,practitioner)!
[cf. talk on the PLE recommenders
developed in the ROLE project;
session 21 (Wednesday, 12.00)]
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2. PLE Flavors: Psychologists & Educators
Selected topics: personalization, competencies, outcome-orientation, reflection, Self-Regulated Learning etc.
[Fruhmann et al., 2010]
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Different learners
Global Learning platform
Different job roles
Companies goals and individual goals
Individual and cultural differences in SRL
different educational settings
Learning success
Motivation
Learning experiences
Different levels of SRL-competencies
Transfer in job context
Learning performance
2. PLE Flavors: Technologists
Selected topics: mash-ups, interoperability, personalization, recommenders, lightweight APIs, opportunistic design, etc.
[Mödritscher & Wild, 2009]
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using www.objectspot.org in
using www.objectspot.org
{ using http://… }
bookmark literature
find papers
{ do s.th. } { for an output }
RSS feed
?Recommendations: tools, activities, …
Recommendations:pre-defined PLE patterns
Tracking:interactions & usage
Scrutable:shift control to user
combination with distance.ktu.lt/scuttle
using teldev.wu.ac.at/xowiki
summarise papers
2. PLE Flavors: Community facilitators
Selected topics: community building and sustaining, context-awareness, recommender, privacy & trust, commenting, rating, PLE practice sharing etc.
[Mödritscher et al., 2010]
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3. Model and method to characterize PLE developments
Characterization of PLEs according to the driving disciplines The list of disciplines can be extended if new influences can be
identified (e.g. evolutionary biology; see EFEPLE workshop) Different kinds of features
Core features of one discipline, like self-regulated learning (pedagogy) or tool interoperability (technology)
Core for one discipline,peripheral for another one
Peripheral for more disciplines(e.g. core for another area)
Characterization along thesediscipline-related feature groups,which we call ‘PLE flavors’
Currently we see these threedominant areas
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4. Example, discussion, conclusions
Example: prototypic PLE solution (PAcMan add-on, enabled by our practice sharing approach [PLEShare repository])
Method to plan, improve, analyze, compare PLE developments Yet: ‘three PLE flavors’ based on our observation in ROLE; lack of
application (other solutions should be analyzed as well)
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Please vote for our mediacast
if you like the idea of PLE practice sharing!
http://vimeo.com/groups/ple2011/videos/25817690
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Thanks for your attention!