1. UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG
 PERSONAL DETAILS
MTHEMBENI MBATHA
201029164
FACULTY OF EDUCATION
PROFESSIONAL STUDIES 3A
PERSONAL LEARNING
ENVIRONMENT

2. PERSONAL LEARNING
ENVIRONMENT
Personal learning environment

3. P
L
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P
L
E

4. WHAT IS PERSONAL
LEARNING ENVIRONMENT?
 It is learning that promote learners collaborations and interaction.
 learners direct and control their own learning and pursue educational goals.
 It is learning that develop and promote self regulations
 It gives opportunity to learners to manage their learning, both content and
process.

5. WHAT IS PERSONAL
LEARNING ENVIRONMENT?

6. PERSONAL LEARNING
ENVIRONMENT?

9. PERSONAL LEARNING
ENVIRONMENT
PLE
http://www.slideshare.net/srmpbi/knowledge-
practices-through-personal-learning-environments-ple

10. PERSONAL LEARNING
ENVIRONMENT
 PLEs represent a shift away from the model in which students
consume information through independent channels such as the
library, a textbook, or an LMS, moving instead to a model where
students draw connections from a growing matrix of resources that
they select and organize. Learners can use websites and other
technological resources that may be part of learning therefore ple
promote free learning.

11. PERSONAL LEARNING
ENVIRONMENT….FREE LEARNING

13. DEFINITION OF A PLE:
 A PLE is also dynamic—the learner is an active participant.
 Learners are the driver of the lesson driven by personal goals.
 PLE is allows and promote the engaging of social networks in the
classroom and also connect teachers learners together during learning.

14. PERSONAL LEARNING
ENVIRONMENT

16. PERSONAL LEARNING
ENVIRONMENT CONT…
 PLE does not divide learning context to society however it build or
construct from the uniting of these two context.
 It is learning that promote equity and this kind of learning is used by
teacher to maintain social order and instil values.
 Therefore PLE can take place in different contexts and situations
such as using different resources that are available around the society
such as internet and social network's.

21. REFERENCE LIST
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