making learning personal – enhancing technology to meet the needs of 21 st century learners
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Making learning personal – enhancing technology to meet the needs of 21 st Century learners. Karen Velasco Deputy Chairman British Institute for Learning and Development and Member of ROLE Project Board. Agenda. Trends in learning Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) – a potted history - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Making learning personal – enhancing technology to meet the needs of 21st Century learners
Karen VelascoDeputy ChairmanBritish Institute for Learning and Developmentand Member of ROLE Project Board
Agenda
Trends in learning
Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) – a potted history
The barriers and constraints of PLEs
From PLEs to ROLEs
The ROLE project (inc case study)
Question time
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The changing shape of learning
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Five learning trends for 2009*
Mobile learning
DIY learning
Flexible learning environments
Virtual worlds
Games and simulations
* According to Brandon Hall, Chief Learning Officer magazine, January 2009
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First a question ...
How many people have:
• Heard of a Personal Learning Environment (PLE)?
• Used a PLE?
1 October 2009
What is a PLE?
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A Personal Learning Environment is not:• A specific software application
• A system for creating or delivering e-learning content
• A learning management system
• A content management system
• A virtual learning environment (in its strictest sense)
A Personal Learning Environment is:• A concept, based on Web 2.0 technology
• A collection of tools and systems
• Browser based
• An environment where learners access information from a variety of sources
• Personal to the user – learner-centric
• Distributed and social
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PLEs – definitions
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A Personal Learning Environment is a facility for an individual to access, aggregate, configure and manipulate digital artefacts of their ongoing learning experiences.
Personal Learning Environments are systems that help learners take control of and manager their own learning. This includes providing support for learners to:• Set their own learning goals
• Manage their learning – both content and process
• Communicate with other in the process of learning
And thereby achieve their learning goals.
PLEs are based on the idea that most learning takes place informally, in different contexts and situations, and not by one single provider.
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PLE elements
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PLEs may be made up of:
• Production tools
• Collaboration and sharing tools
• Communication
• Storage tools
• Aggregating content
• Aggregating people
• Aggregating software
• Identity management
• APIs and protocols
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Discussion topic
• What are the benefits to (a) you personally and (b) your organisation of using a PLE?
• What are the drawbacks/limitations of PLEs?
1 October 2009
Benefits of PLEs
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PLEs allow you to:
•Create a repository of material about a particular subject matter
•Communicate and collaborate
•Organise material in a way that is personal to you
•Learn formally and informally
•Learn at a time and place to suit you
•Learn throughout your life
•Use whatever tools and devices you want (eg mobile phone, PS3, Wii)
•Interact with friends and wider communities
•Explore a subject in an informal manner
•Reflect on your learning
•Submit work for assessment and review
•And much more ...
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Drawbacks of PLEs
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• Numerous tools may be overwhelming
• Skill levels
– Computer literacy
– Information literacy
• Differing pedagogical viewpoints
• Access to technology and software may be limited
• Reconciling the structured nature of formal education with the informal attributes of networked learning
• Data privacy and security issues
• Still mainly linked with FE/HE sectors
• Take-up in the workplace
• Do blogs, wikis, and podcasts qualify as a PLE?
• Just how responsive and intuitive are PLEs?
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iGoogle – is it a PLE?
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“Google is the most-used e-learning application.”Graham Attwell, Pontydysgu
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Responsive OpenLearning Environments
“an adaptive, predictive learning tool”
From PLE to ROLE
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Who is ROLE?
1. Fraunhofer FIT DE
2. RWTH Aachen University DE
3. Technical University of Graz AT
4. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven BE
5. University of Koblenz DE
6. Uppsala University SE
7. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne CH
8. University of Leicester UK
9. Open University UK
10. Vienna University of Economics & Business Administration AT
11. Festo Lernzentrum Saar GmbH DE
12. imc AG DE
13. British Institute for Learning and Development UK
14. Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
15. Zentrum für Soziale Innovation AT
16. U&I Learning BE
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ROLE vision
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The ROLE Video
1 October 2009
Today’s PLEs
Companies
Private
FE/HE
Courses and Contentin LMS
CorporateBlogs
Communities / Social NetworkGroups / Experts
Add-inEducationApplications
CorporateResources
Search andOpen Resource
Repositories
Courses and Contentin LMS/LCMS
InstituteServices
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From PLE to ROLE
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Case study – English Language Learning Scenario
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Case study – English Language Learning Scenario
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Case study – English Language Learning Scenario
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Case study – English Language Learning Scenario
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Case study – English Language Learning Scenario
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A few questions ...
• Are we in danger of relying on “total technology”?
• What about the digital divide?
• Should we rely on technology alone to promote knowledge and social inclusion?
• Do we have the infrastructure to support it?
• What about diversity issues?
• What about assessment and accreditation of learning?
• Is it truly global?
• If we build it, will they come?
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For more information
ROLE website:
http://www.role-project.eu/
LinkedIn ROLE group:
http://www.linkedin.com/groupInvitation?gid=1590487
British Institute for Learning and Development:
http://www.thebild.org
Contact me:
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Any questions?
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