Personal learning environments (PLEs) allow individuals to access, aggregate, and manipulate digital artifacts of their ongoing learning experiences. A PLE is a collection of tools, both online and offline, that enable learners to connect, create, and share content with communities of interest and practice. Learners can use PLEs to collaborate with others, share information, connect with peers and experts, and reflect on their learning. PLEs recognize that learning occurs both formally and informally through a variety of tools chosen by the learner.

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Tiyani Chabalala
PROFESSIONAL STUDIES 3A10
LECTURE: Prof G Lautenbach & DR J
Batchelor
PERSONAL LEARNING
ENVIRONMENT

2. 1. Definition of PLE
2. Using PLE
3. Involving learners
4. The important of PLE
5. How do learners collaborate, share information,
connect, and reflect
6. conclusion
CONTENT

3. PERSONAL
LEARNING
ENVIRONMENT

4. PLE ?
“We all learn. We all use tools to help us learn.
Personal learning environments or PLEs, are the collection of tools (not just
online) that enable us to connect, create and share content with our own
communities of interest and practice. Mine will be different to yours, because
my choices and preferences about what and how I learn are different to yours.
And what you choose to use personalises your learning, making it uniquely
yours.”
1.PLE

5. • The PLE is an approach, not an application
Stephen Downes (05-06-2006)
• Personal Learning Environments offer both the
framework and the technologies to integrate
personal learning and working.Graham Attwell &
Cristina Costa (11-2008)
• A Personal Learning Environment is a facility for
an individual to access, aggregate, configure and
manipulate digital artefacts of their ongoing
learning experiences. Ron Lubensky (18-12-
2006)
A PLE is a web interface into the owners’ digital
environment. Terry Anderson (26-01-2007)
However, a PLE is not a piece of software. It is an
environment where people and tools and communities
and resources interact in a very loose kind of way.
Scott Wilson (04-2008)
A collection of tools, brought together under the
conceptual notion of openness, interoperability, and
learner control (…) PLEs are a concept-entity.
George Siemens (15-04-2007)
PLE

6. • PLEs are not another substantiation of educational technology but a
new approach to learning.
• A response to pedagogic approaches which require that learner’s
e-learning systems need to be under the control of the learners
themselves and recognise the needs of life-long learners for a
system that provides a standard interface to different institutions’
e-learning systems, and that allows portfolio information to be
maintained across institutions.
• PLE are based on the idea that learning will take place in different
contexts and situations and will not be provided by a single
learning provider
• The idea of a Personal Learning Environment recognises that
learning is continuing and seeks to provide tools to support that
learning
PERSONAL LEARNING
ENVIRONMENT

7. • PLEs can help in the recognition of informal learning
• PLEs can develop on the potential of services oriented
architectures for dispersed and networked forms of learning and
knowledge development.
• “the heart of the concept of the PLE is that it is a tool that allows a
learner (or anyone) to engage in a distributed environment
consisting of a network of people, services and resources. It is not
just Web 2.0, but it is certainly Web 2.0 in the sense that it is (in
the broadest sense possible) a read-write application.”
•
PERSONAL LEARNING
ENVIRONMENT

8. PERSONAL LEARNING
ENVIRONMENT

9. TOOLS

10. PERSONAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
A CONCEPT BASED ON WEB 2 .0 AND SOCIAL
SOFTWARE

11. • content management
• integration of personal and professional interests, related to formal and
informal learning experiences
• working and learning space, both individual and collaborative
• e-portfolio
• rich profiles that facilitate connections
• multi-format communication system
• aggregation and syndication (rss feeds)
CHARACTERICS OF PLE

12. 2.USING (PLE)
PERSONAL
LEANING
ENVIRONMENT

13. 2.USING PLE

14. EXAMPLES OF PLE

15. New forms of learning are based on trying
things and action, rather than on more
abstract knowledge
NEW FORM OF LEARNING

16. TOOLS OF PLE

17. PLE, PLN AND PLN
•Add tools/services
•Connect to data,
information, knowledge
•Create artifacts
Personal Learning
Environment
•Connect to peers,
educators, family and
friends
•Share thoughts, ideas,
resources, artifacts
Personal Learning
Network •Connect to professionals
and experts via professional
organizations and networks
•Collaborate
•Contribute
Professional
Learning Network

18. MANAGEMENT OF PERSONAL
LEARNING NETWORK

19. INVOLVING LEANERS

20. 3.INVOLVING LEANERS

21. LEARNERS ENJOY LEARNING WHEN
IT’S ENGAGING AND FUN!

22. PERSONALIZED LEARNING

23. WHAT LEARNERS GET FROM PLE

25. Using whatever tools and devices
which the learners choose
CHOOSING A SUITABLE TOOL

26. 4.IMPORTANT
OF USING PLE
IMPORTANTS
OF PLE

27. It also recognises the role of
the individual in organising
their own learning
IMPORTANT OF PLE

28. PERSONAL LEARNING
ENVIRONMENT CONNECTS PEOPLE

29. EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES IN
EDUCATION

30. USING PLE IN OUR S

31. people learn through legitimate peripheral participation
PLE AND PARTICIPATION

32. activities
PLE MODEL
processes

33. Connect with others Manage information Generate content
Search for information Aggregate information and knowledge Manipulate,
rearrange and repurpose knowledge artifacts Analyse information to develop knowledge Reflect,
question,
challenge, seek clarification, form and defend opinions Share by supporting others in
their learning
Network through a collaborative learning environment
Adapted from Graham Attwell (2010) – Working, learning and playing through Personal Learning
Environments [Presentation]
http://www.slideshare.net/GrahamAttwell/working-learning-and-playing-through-personal-learning-
environments
Steve Wheeler
FUNTIONS OF PLE

34. PLE TOOLS AND WHAT THEY DO

35. PLE TOOLS FOR LEARNING

36. 5.How do learners
collaborate, share
information,
connect and
reflect

37. The promise of Personal
Learning Environments
could be to extend access
to educational technology
to everyone who wishes to
organise their own learning
HOW DO LEARNERS COLLABORATE, SHARE
INFORMATION, CONNECT AND REFLECT

38. Social Media gives
everyone a voice in the
community
COLLABORATE

39. COLLABORATIONS

40. COLLABORATION
COLLABORATION

41. COLLABORATION

42. CONNECTION

43. SHARE INFORMATION

44. • Learning simply about gaining
knowledge...?
• Sharing information with others
• Sharing information should be about
virtual community that it is focused on
personal interaction
• Give new opportunities for learners and
educators to collaborate
LEARNING AND PERSONAL
LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

45. CONNECT

46. REFLECT

47. PROFOUND INNOVATIONS IN TECHNOLOGY
TEND TO BE REFLECTED IN OLDER
PARADIGMS

48. Web 2.0 allows young
people to be active co-
creators of knowledge
PLE CAN ENCOURAGE
REFLECTION

49. LEARNERS CAN BE

50. WHAT PLE DO IN LEARNING

51. PERSONAL COMPETENCE

52. HOW CAN PERSONAL ENVIRONMENT
IMPROVE LEARNING

53. conclusion

54. Personal learning
environment
• A Personal Learning Environment is a facility for an individual to access, aggregate, configure and
manipulate digital artefacts of their ongoing learning experiences
• integration of personal and professional interests, related to formal and informal learning experiences
Using PLE
• Personal learning environment will help learners be agents in their learning
• PLE help educators and learners to reflect
• Engage in informal knowledge exchange
INVOLVING
LEARNER
• Encourages collaboration between the teacher and the student
• Learners get the opportunity to be involved in their own learning and create their own knowledge
• Personal learning environment helps with collaboration and getting everyone to be involved in their
learning
CONCLUSION

55. REFERENCE
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