Passionate about teaching

2. Personal Learning
Environments - a concept
based on Web 2 .0 and
social software

3. The reform and reshaping
of social systems and
institutions has tended to
lag behind in periods of
rapid technological
change

4. for example the „virtual classroom‟ or the
„Virtual Learning Environment‟

5. It also recognizes the role of the
individual in organizing their own
learning

6. PLNs can help in the
recognition of informal
learning

7. Thank you
Steve Wheeler
Faculty of Education
University of Plymouth
W: www2.plymouth.ac.uk/distancelearning
E: swheeler@plymouth.ac.uk
B: steve-wheeler.blogspot.com
ccSteveWheeler,UniversityofPlymouth,2009

8. Connect to ideas and knowledge

9. Confused about all the social networks?
Image from Tina Vega via
Flickr

11. Lecture 4 - Social Bookmarking and
Personal Learning Networks
Frances Bell, f.bell@salford.ac.uk
Slide11
Image used under Creative Commons License from Edans

12. Agenda
 Social Bookmarking
 Getting Started in Delicious
 Comparison with Categories and Search
 Tagging and Folksonomy
 Practical Networking for Finding and
Sharing Resources
 Summary of Block 1
 Assessed Task 1

13. How does your personal network influence
finding and sharing behaviours?
Finding
links
Saving/
sharing
links
Network influences
volume
Network influences
impact
2 virtuous circles if
finding/sharing
Strength is in overlap
DeliciousTwitter

14. So how does a network help
me?

15. Malinka Ivanova, Technical University – Sofia,
Bulgaria
The 5th International Scientific Conference
eLSE - eLearning and Software for Education,
BUCHAREST, April 09-10, 2009
From Personal Learning Environment
Building to Professional Learning Network
Forming
From Personal Learning Environment
Building to Professional Learning Network
Forming

16. From Personal Learning Environment Building
to Professional Learning Network Forming
Ai
m
Forming
learning
network for
competenc
e
developmen
t
Professional
network
organizing
The meaning
of social and
professional
networks for
education
Building PLE
on start
pages
Conclusion

17. Social network sites can be defined as web-based services that
allow individuals to:
(1) construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded
system
(2) articulate a list of other users with whom they share a
connection
(3) view and traverse their list of connections and those made by
others within the system.
Danah Boyd, School of Information, University of California-Berkeley
Nicole Ellison, Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and
Media, Michigan State University
Social-oriented applications and
professional networks - new opportunities
for learners and educators
Social Networks

18. A learning network is a group of
persons
who create, share, support and study
learning resources (“units of learning”)
in a specific knowledge domain.
Rob Koper, Open University of the Netherlands
Social-oriented applications and
professional networks - new opportunities
for learners and educators
Special-formed learning
networks for life-long learners

19. Some advanced students during the PLE building self-orient and arrange content, knowledge and contacts in
two different networks: personal and professional
The transition from PLE to PfLN passes through a middle step of PLN set up
This process is dynamic and continuously
adapted to the present students’ interests
In some cases the boarders between PLN and PfLN are blurred, because
of coincidence of personal and professional interests
PLE can be presented as a core for
networks expanding
The PLE building supports students in socialization and network
processes set up
Professional Network Organizing

20. The Future of Online Learning
and Personal Learning
Environments
Stephen Downes April 18,
2007

21. Online Learning
• Has been around since 1995 or so
• Really grew with the World Wide
Web
• Has advanced tremendously
Many positive developments in
the last few years worth
sharing…

22. Open Source Applications
• Learning Management Systems
such as Moodle, Sakai, Bodington, ATutor
• Development and CommunityTools
such as LAMS, Connexions, ELGG, Drupal,
WordPress
• Supporting Software
such as Firefox, Thunderbird,
OpenOffice, Audacity

23. Access…
• One-to-one computing
such as the Maine laptop project,
now spreading rapidly
• One Laptop per Child
has launched –
computers in Nigeria
• Wireless access
3G networks, WLAN…

24. The Idea of the PLE…
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/members/ple/resources/ed

25. The way networks learn is the way people
learn…

26. Personal
Learning
Networks
Connect, Collaborate,
Collect, Contribute
Steven Knight
ED554 – A2
Marymount University
July 2011

27. http://www.slideshare.net/corinnew/creating-a-personal-learning-network-5016387

28. Creating Personal
Learning Networks
• Deirdre Bonnycastle
• Clinical Teaching Development
• College of Medicine
• University of Saskatchewan

29. Reflection
- guided reflection
- forms-based input
- presentations and seminars
- journaling
- blogs, wikis
- communities
- discussion, sharing
The question is, how can
we assist people to see
themselves, their practice,
in a mirror?

30. Definitions
 PLE
 Personal Learning Environment
 PLN
 Personal Learning Networks

31. Quotes
 @redstarvip: Give away everything you know,
and more will come back to you
 @peasandqs PLNs end the isolation felt in small
school divisions. I am part of a greater "whole".

32. Quotes
 @redstarvip: Give away everything you know,
and more will come back to you
 @peasandqs PLNs end the isolation felt in small
school divisions. I am part of a greater "whole".

33. Reference
 Bell, F. (n.d.). Social book marking and personal learning
networks.
 Bonnycastle, D. (n.d.). Creating Personal Learning Networks
. University of Saskatchewan.
 Downes, S. (2007). The futere of online learning and
personal learning environment .
 Ivanova, M. (2009). From personal learning environment
building to professilal network forming. The 5th International
Scientific Conference . BUCHAREST: Technical University .
 Knight, S. (2011). Personal learning networks . Marymount
University.
 Wheeler, S. (2009). www2.plymouth.ac.uk/distancelearning.
Retrieved 03 14, 2013, from steve-wheeler.blogspot.com.