1. Professional Development (PLE)
• This workshop will:
– Overview additional information about PLE (Show examples)
– Ask them to construct their current PLE and be creative
– Share their PLE and discuss tools and behaviors
– Discuss ways in which students can benefit from creating PLEs

2. Using PLEs
Personal Learning Environments 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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Learning_Environment
Sue Waters - 5 top tools for a PLE
(http://suewaters.wikispaces.com/)

3. PLE - A Longer Description
The PLE represents the integration of a number of "Web 2.0"
technologies like blogs, Wikis, RSS feeds, Twitter, Facebook,
etc.— around the independent learner. Using the term "e-
learning 2.0," Stephen Downes describes the PLE as: "... one
node in a web of content, connected to other nodes and content
creation services used by other students…. It becomes, indeed,
not a single application, but a collection of interoperating
applications—an environment rather than a system"
Downes, S. "E-learning 2.0", National Research Council of Canada, October 17, 2005

4. PLE – of an Instructor
Alec Couros, PhD Thesis illustration, the Networked Teacher -
http://educationaltechnology.ca/couros/580

5. PLE – They can Complement an LMS
David Delgado's PLE diagram
http://eduspaces.net/davidds/weblog/193187.html

6. PLE – They can Complement an LMS
Scott Wilson's PLE and the Institution image -
http://eduspaces.net/scottw/weblog/212041.html

7. PLE – They can Complement an LMS
The Personal Research Portal
Ismael Peña-López (2008)

8. PLE – Connected and Personalized Learning
http://terrya.edublogs.org/2007/04/30/on-groups-networks-and-collectives/

9. PLE – Connected and Personalized Learning
Group Network Collective
Activity Collaborative Projects Discussion and Queries Data Mining, Individuals
Submission, Search and
Query
Tools Threaded Discussions Mailing Lists, Blog Search Engines, Social
Chats Syndication, MySpace Apps, i.e. 43 Things
Goals Accreditation Formal Knowledge Generation Knowledge Extraction
Learning
Time Frame Semester Real Time to Short Term Long Term –
– Asynchronous Asynchronous
Commitment to High Often Assessed Medium – As Needed None
Participate
Motivation to Contribute External Professional Reputation None
Metaphor “Virtual Classroom” “Virtual Communities of “Wisdom of Crowds”
Practice”
Expectations to Help High, Often Mutual Mid, Share and Share Low/None, Unconscious
Dependence Alike Ethos Aggregation
http://terrya.edublogs.org/2007/04/30/on-groups-networks-and-collectives/

10. PLE – How Can They Be Used by Students
Fernando Santamaría/Concepción Abraira (PLE from my PhD)
http://www.concepcionabraira.info/aplicaciones.htm

11. PLE – How Can They Be Used by Students
Katherine Pisana - My PLE and 3 Sub PLEs
oriented towards specific learning networks

12. PLE and the Future