The document discusses the development of a personal learning environment (PLE) and social hub concept. It was developed for 700+ teachers and 40,000 students in the Caribbean Netherlands to support lifelong learning. The PLE is meant to allow learners to direct their own learning across institutions through tools that allow connection with others, management of resources, and integration of formal and informal learning activities. An effective PLE employs the four C's of collect, communicate, create, and collaborate. The social hub concept aims to integrate stakeholders, bridge internal and external communication, support existing communication channels, allow personalized and targeted communication, and facilitate teacher-guided learning with analytics. Demo interfaces of the social hub prototype are presented.

1. Personal Learning environment which enables
inclusion and social interactions
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2. Programme for the next 15 minutes
• Background of the NGDLE (by nature PLE)
• Characteristics of the PLE
• The Social Hub (concept)
• Social Hub prototype sneak peak (demo)
• Empower the teachers in 3 minutes (demo)
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3. Developed in a real setting
• 700+ Teachers, close to 40.000 students, Teacher training, support for
Caribbean Netherlands – (Hogeschool Utrecht, University of Applied
Sciences, 6 faculties)
• 14 Criteria of the LLL concept to be supported
• 1700 educations must be digital and converted to blended learning
modules in 5 years (typically 140 study hours) but also a significant number
of Masters and Bachelors
• Improve or at the very least keep level of quality
• Adapt to changes in society
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4. The Personal learning environment (PLE) describes the tools,
communities, and services that constitute the individual
educational platforms learners use to direct their own learning
and pursue educational goals
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5. Tools to allow the learner
Learn with other people: manage and create relationships, forming connections
between contacts that are not part of a formal learning network
Control their learning resources: allow them to structure, share, and annotate
resources they find or have been given
Manage the activities they participate in: provide opportunities for them to create
as well as join activities that bring together people and resources
Integrate their learning: allow them to integrate learning from different
institutions and sources, re-using evidence of competency and making links
between formal and informal learning. (Milligan, et al., 2006)
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6. Quality features would be to employ the
four C model
Collect: gather articles, tools, data, images and resources
Communicate: share ideas, convey information, ask questions,
reflect, respond, comment and clarify
Create: generate ideas, research, write, bring content into being
Collaborate: synthesize, working with peers, engaging one another
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7. • #@ Integrate societal stakeholders
• Combine internal and external
communication between learners and
teachers, breaching the “walled garden”
• Supports existing channels of
communication (accessibility)
• Target social media to specific groups
• Teacher guided learning (facilitator)
• Learning analytics and big data
• Online on anything, everywhere
• Personalized communication
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Social Hub concept

8. Demo hub (screenshots/live)
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9. Demo hub Build a course demo
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