5. Supporting learners in planning and controlling their learning
journey
Setting their own learning goals
Monitoring their progress towards achieving these goals
Managing their learning – both content and process
Enabling learners to aggregate resources and personalise their
learning environment
Providing recommendations to learners about resources and other
learners (‘study-buddies’)
Collaborating with others in the process of learning
Providing support to learners for community building and
collaborative activities
A shared learning experience instead of a lone study
8. Self-regulated learning (SRL) is a term that describes an individual’s ability to
learn how to learn. In other words, each of us can develop a wide-ranging skill set
that enables us to learn in a number of different ways.
In some university settings the term SRL is more commonly described as
“independent learning” or “auto-didactic learning”.
Some examples of how SRL might be assessed:
Having the ability to set learning goals and plan appropriate study strategies
Finding suitable learning materials
Seeking help from peers and collaborating to gain feedback or assurance
Being able to reflect on their learning progress and adjust their study strategies
accordingly
10. From Personal Learning Environment Building
to Professional Learning Network Forming
Aim
Forming
learning
network for
competence
development
Professional
network
organizing
The meaning
of social and
professional
networks for
education
Building PLE
on start pages
Conclusion
11. Aim
To analyze the experience gained in using of
Web 2.0 environment for competence
development and for professional network
organizing
12. Social-oriented applications and
professional networks - new opportunities
for learners and educators
W3C “Social Networks Interoperability Roadmap”
Incubator Group (XG)
Federated Interoperable Framework
13. Social network sites can be defined as web-based services that allow
individuals to:
(1) construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system
(2) articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection
(3) view and traverse their list of connections and those made by
others within the system.
Danah Boyd, School of Information, University of California-Berkeley
Nicole Ellison, Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and
Media, Michigan State University
Social-oriented applications and
professional networks - new opportunities
for learners and educators
Social Networks
16. Because of their possibilities for:
data, information and “knowledge
fusion”
enhancing accessibility, productivity
and
innovative solutions
research tools providing
forming groups of personal and
professional interests
Social-oriented applications and
professional networks - new opportunities
for learners and educators
To be successful at knowledge
creation, analysis and
dissemination, learners need from
network inter-personal and inter-group
interactions
17. Personal Learning Environment
PLEs building laid the foundations of some main ideas:
learning is an on-going process and tools to support this
learning are needed
the role of the individual in self-organizing learning is
important
learning can take place in different contexts and situations
and cannot be provided by a single learning provider.
PLEs are systems that help learners take control of and
manage their own learning.
This includes providing support for learners to set their
own learning goals, manage their learning;
managing both content and process;
communicate with others in the process of learning and
thereby achieve learning goals.
18. RolesActivities
Startpageenvironment
Tools/Services
Processes
Searcher
Assemblator
Learner Researcher
Innovatorof
data, information, kno
wledge
of subject matter,
technologies, how to learn
Create
Share
Commu-
nicate
Connect
RSS
feeds, links
Search
engines
Blogs,
wikis
Feel
and
look
Social
book-
marking
Images/
AV
Chat/AV
conference
Email, f
orum
Facebook/
Twitter/
Ning
To-do list, notes,
comments
calendar
Design
learning
strategy
Plan
activities
Perform
activities
Document
results, ana
lyze
Share
results, eva
luate
Choose
technology/
application
Arrange
environment
Extend/modify
environment
Share
environment/
collaborate
Search
Gather
Aggre
-gate
Productivity
improvement
Customi-
zation
Compo-
nents,
panels,
tabs,
widgets
widgets
Goals, needs,
interests,
motivation,
problems
Blog, w
iki
AmodelofPLE
Building
19. Forming the learning network of the course Internet
Technologies is to:
(1) provide sustainable value to students, not only during
the course, but also after its finishing
(2) stimulate them to contribute their knowledge, insights
and experiences on a continuous basis
Forming Learning Network for Competence
Development
LMS, Social network, Start page
20. •Of relationship
and connections
among peers
and knowledge
•Of own
opportunity for
value-created
involvement
I
Aware
•In engaging in
informal
knowledge
exchange
•In
revising/extending
competence
development
objectives
II
Interested
•In individual or
collaborative
learning
•In social and
knowledge
network activities
•In pro-actively
contributing own
insights and
expertise
III
Trying
engaging
- To subject
mater
- To peers and
educators
- To another
professionals
IV
Actively
involved and
connected
Personal
competence
development
objectives
Competence development
lifecycle in a learning network
(according Rogers)
21. •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
Professional Network Organizing
LMS, Social network, Start page
Development of Professional Learning Network
23. Some advanced students during the PLE building self-orient and arrange content, knowledge and contacts in
two different networks: personal and professional
The transition from PLE to PfLN passes through a middle step of PLN set up
This process is dynamic and continuously
adapted to the present students’ interests
In some cases the boarders between PLN and PfLN are blurred, because
of coincidence of personal and professional interests
PLE can be presented as a core for
networks expanding
The PLE building supports students in socialization and network
processes set up
Professional Network Organizing
24. Conclusion
• A model for PLE building is proposed
• The modified Rogers’ model for competence development lifecycle
in a learning network is used in order to be examined the main
phases in competence progress of each student
• Social networks contribute to the processes by which learners meet
and communicate, and pool, share, learn about and reuse their
resources, knowledge and competencies
• PLE building is found to be a core for PLN and PfLN deployment
• The transition from PLE to PfLN is an important step that supports
students to become self-organized and life-long learners
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Notes de l'éditeur
PLEs in a variety of educational contexts ranging from formal undergraduate Higher Education to the continual informal learning exhibited by knowledge workers in the workplace. We outlined a couple of scenarios demonstrating how learners in these contexts interact with each other and how the cohesiveness and interdependence learners influences the form of the Personal Learning Environment adopted.In this short presentation I will leave the scenarios aside and will talk about some underlying questions and factors that I think are important if the PLE vision is to become more broadly taken up within the education
In contrast, the PLE would focus on the needs of the learner.These tools are meant to give the learner greater control over their learning experience and integrate closely with other tools the learner might utilise in their personal and professional life.
The predecessors to PLEs were the VLEs, or virtual learning environments, were developed as a response to institutions’ needs of bringing together different tools required for administration of learning – management of students, of content, grades – and other educational facilities, as well as enabling synchronous and asynchronous interactions to be brought together. The technologies adopted by VLEs are largely standard, with most commercial and Open Source tools exhibiting the same functionality, and overall pedagogical approach.But VLEs are fundamentally a conservative technology; they are a solution to a set of organisational problems.They are less clearly suited to the needs of learners.
A Personal Learning environment doesn’t need to be very personal - it might be the same as a hundred others, or look like no other - but it must be social – perhaps it should be called a Social Learning Environment.