Beyond the traditional learning management system: moving towards personal learning environments as prepared for a workshop at the WWW2008 conference in Cape Town, South Africa in September 2008. This was put together in a bit of a hurry, and perhaps lacks some rigor, as an example of content for the workshop.

2. Education as an industrial process - Graham Attwell

3. Universities are physical entities because of scarcity

4. Classrooms aggregate demand to supply

5. Traditional libraries aggregate scarce content resources

6. The invention of computers changed all that, right?

7. Perhaps not computers, how about the World Wide Web?

8. Perhaps not!

9. A lot of what is done with Internet technologies in education... 19th Century Pedagogy 21 st Century Minds 21 st Century Technology

10. Enter Education 3.0

11. Reusable learning content - students - institutional The choices students make - Individual - Credibilit y Collaboration - Cross institution - Decentralized - Non- institutional - Individual Recognition of learning achieved - derived from RPL Education 3.0 characteristics

12. Allow for alternative space, time, technology

13. Opportunities for personal learning Set own learning goals Global infrastructure Manage own learning Content Autogogy Communication People network

14. Enter the Personal Learning Environment

15. KEWL3: eLearning platform developed as a collaboration of African Universities led by UWC

16. The KEWL3 challenge Create a system that supports institution-alized eLearning while still supporting personalized learning opportunities

17. Setting & tracking learning goals

18. manage their learning: content and process

19. communicate with others in the process of learning

20. Integration with global infrastructure

21. Easy use of popular sources of content

22. Filters

23. Mashups

24. Podcasting

25. Blogging

26. Presentation sharing

27. Personal learning desktop

28. Some caveats

29. PLE is not a magic pill!

30. Of course, some things remain scarce and require aggregation .. Oh duh! Laboratory experience Clinical experience Practical experience

31. Let's build a PLE for the concept “Education 3.0”