Communication, Self-perception of
Learning, Knowledge Management
and Learning process Management:
The first approach to the PLE's professionals
structure
Mª Paz Prendes
Linda Castañeda
Isabel Gutiérrez
Universidad de Murcia

National Minister of Economy and Sustainability (2013-2016)

PLEs based lifelong
learning skills:
analysis of future professionals and
suggestions for improvement
www.um.es/ple

www.um.es/ple
The description and the prospective
analysis, both technically and
functional, of PLEs of the Spanish
future professionals in all areas of
knowledge.

Future Professionals
(Senior University Students)
PLE
Tecnological:
Tools
Cognitive:
Strategies
Institutional Feedback:
How University is
contributing to its PLE?
Better understanding of
PLEs:
models, patterns, types
(Diagrammer, typology)

PLE’s
Structure
Castañeda & Adell, 2013

PLE’s
Structure
Castañeda & Adell,
2013
+
Self-regulated
Learning
Boekaerts, Pintrich,
Zimmermann

Self perception
• Intrinsic
motivation
• Previous
knowledge
• Selfperception
• Feedback
Information
Management
• Processing +
• Searching
• Management
• Organization
• Recovering
• Processing in an
ethical way
• Decoding.
• Creation
Learning
Mangement
• Regulation and
planification of
the learning
• Critical thinking
• Open learning
• Selective
attention
• Mental
representation
• Resolving
problems
Comunication
• Comunication
• Participation and
work team
Self perception, 9
Management of
the information,
19
Management of
the learning, 13
Communication,
10

Expert Review
(Redefinition of the content)
• Questionnaire composed of 51 questions and
275 items
Cognitive Interviewing
(Reformulation of the questions and items
enounciation)
• Questionnaire composed of 51 questions and
275 items refourmulated
Pre-test Piloting
(First data collection)
• Questionnaire composed of 51 questions and
275 items refourmulated
Factor Analysis (Exploratory and confirmatory)
• Experimental mortality detected
• Questionnaire composed of 48 questions and
159 items

406 last year universitarystudents
67% women
Arts &
Humanities, 68
Science, 69
Health
Sciences, 50
Social
Sciences &
Law, 143
Enginiering
and
Architechture ,
76

17.7%
Universidad de Oviedo
Universidad de País Vasco
12.6% Universitat de Lleida
8.1%
Universitat Rovira I Virgili
10.3%
Universitat de Valencia
5.4%
Universidad de Murcia
15.3 % 15.5 %
Universitat d’Alacant
Universidad de Las Palmas de
Gran Canaria
14 %

Self perception
• Externally motivated
• Lectures & Mass media as factors
of motivation for learning
• Previous knowledge about Goals as factor
of motivation for tasks
• External factors (course, project, job) for
deciding what to learn

Information Management
• Unidirectional information sources
• Elementary (too?)
• Searching skills
• Organizing info skills
• Publishing Skills
• Still prefer TEXT for reading
• NOT Info in the cloud – storing resources
• 30% NO creators

Learning Management
• Around 20% NOT reflection
• 40% dont “document” reflection
• Don’t make explicit their goals
• Don’t need external control
• Individualistic
• Formal COURSES (f2f)
• Books, teachers, experts

Expert Review
(Redefinition of the content)
• Questionnaire composed of 51 questions and
275 items
Cognitive Interviewing
(Reformulation of the questions and items
enounciation)
• Questionnaire composed of 51 questions and
275 items refourmulated
Pre-test Piloting
(First data collection)
• Questionnaire composed of 51 questions and
275 items refourmulated
Factor Analysis (Exploratory and confirmatory)
• Experimental mortality detected
• Questionnaire composed of 48 questions and
159 items

www.um.es/ple
Also in English

Linda Castañeda
<lindacq@um.es>
Grupo de Investigación de Tecnología Educativa
Universidad de Murcia
<http://www.lindacastaneda.com>
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