Mash-Up Personal Learning Environments

Learning environments have been designed to facilitate human change and learning for millions of years. More recently, digital tools have become integrated into formal education and workplaces to support learning activities. Now, more learning applications are learner-centered rather than institution-centered, empowering learners to customize their own personal learning environments (PLEs). Technologically, information is distributed across sites and activities can span many pages, services, and people using mash-ups, which combine software and data from different sources to create new applications for niche markets.