The document discusses personal learning environments (PLEs). It defines a PLE as an individual's facility to access, organize, and manipulate digital artifacts of their ongoing learning experiences. A PLE integrates a person's personal and professional interests through distributed feeds. The document emphasizes that PLEs are part of personal and professional learning networks and should be started early in one's career. PLEs allow learners to engage in a distributed learning environment consisting of people, services, and resources. Forming learning networks provides sustainable value and stimulates continuous contribution of knowledge.

1. PERSONAL LEARNING
ENVIRONMENT
M.N MASHEGO
201120558
PROFESSIONAL STUDIES 3A

2. PERSONAL LEARNINGPERSONAL LEARNING
ENVIRONMENTENVIRONMENT

3. DEFINITIONS
“A personal learning environment is a facility of an
individual to access, aggregate, configure and
manipulate digital artifacts of their ongoing learning
experiences”
Ron Lubensky, URL: http://ow.ly/1lCPi

4. DEFINITIONS CONTINUED
“[It] is a unique interface into the owner’s digital
environment. It integrates their personal and
professional interests (including their formal and
informal learning), connecting these via a series of
syndicated and distributed feeds.”
Terry Anderson, URL: http://ow.ly/1lD01

5. SUMMARY OF PLE
PLE as part of Personal Learning Network and
Professional Learning Network

6. It is not just young people
who use social software for
learning

7. The Idea of the PLE…
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/members/ple/resources/edf.ppt

8. Social software is
widely used in the
workplace for
informal learning.
Hence student
teachers are required
to start creating their
PLE’s at an early
stage of their career

9. “This can be seen as the starting point for [their]
professional digital footprint, [and] something they
can take with them and update throughout their
career as educator[s].”
Prof Lautenbach & Dr J. Batchelor, URL:
http://goo.gl/BElZN
Schools need to be resourced with the 21st
century
learning environments viz. Computer and Science
labs.

10. • Teachers need to create their own PLE’s that will
allow them to share and exchange information and
research with fellow colleagues.
• Teachers have to assist learners in create their own
PLE’s that will help them get access to educational
help and information.
• Teachers and learners need to integrate their PLE’s
for effective learning and teaching.

11. Professional Network Organizing
LMS, Social network, Start
page
Development of Professional Learning Network

12. The Concept…
• Learning is centered around the interests of the
learner
• This learning is immersive – learning by doing
• The computer connects the student to the rest of
the world

13. “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.”
Stephen Downes, 2006

14. Web 2.0 allows
young people to be
active co-creators
of knowledge

15. Online Learning
• Has been around since 1995 or so
• Really grew with the World Wide
Web
• Has advanced tremendously
Many positive developments in the
last few years worth sharing…

16. WHERE TO BEGIN?

17. Open Educational Resources
• MIT’s OpenCourseWare project
and the OpenCourseWare Consortium
• Open University’s Open Courses
• OER initiatives
Hewlett, Wellcome, OECD, UNESCO
• Creative Commons and CC materials
in Flickr, Yahoo, Google, Wikipedia, Wikiversity, etc.

18. Access…
• One-to-one computing
such as the Maine laptop project,
now spreading rapidly
• One Laptop per Child
has launched –
computers in Nigeria
• Wireless access
3G networks, WLAN…

19. Forming Learning Network for
Competence Development
LMS, Social network, Start
page

20. 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 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

21. The idea of a Personal
Learning Environment
recognizes that learning is
continuing and seeks to provide
tools to support that learning

22. Using whatever tools and
devices which the learners
choose

23. It also recognises the role of the
individual in organising their own
learning

24. Click to watch a video that
demonstrates the integration of a
Teacher-Learner PLE http://tubidy.mobi

25. Conclusion
• Social networks contribute to the
processes by which learners meet and
communicate, and pool, share, learn
about and reuse their resources,
knowledge and competencies
• Social networks contribute to the
processes by which learners meet and
communicate, and pool, share, learn
about and reuse their resources,
knowledge and competencies

26. BIBLIOGRAPHY
• Conference, T. 5. I. S., 2009. From Personal
Learning Environment Building to Professional
Learning Network Forming. Sofia, Bulgaria,
Malinka Ivanova, Technical University .
• Downes, S., 2007. The Future of Online
Learning and Personal Learning Environments.
s.l., s.n.
• www.knownet.com/writing/weblogs/Graham_Attwell