scholarly journals Preservice Teachers’ Perception and Use of Personal Learning Environments (PLEs)

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sami Şahin ◽  
Çelebi Uluyol
Keyword(s):  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Web 2.0 Tools ◽  
Personal Learning ◽  
Video Sharing ◽  
Internet Searching ◽  
Personal Learning Environments ◽  
Educational Contents

Personal learning environments (PLEs) are Web 2.0 tools and services by which users’ access, construct, manage, and share educational contents in order to meet their learning needs. These environments enable users to manage their learning according to their own personal preferences. They further promote socialization and collaboration with their broad user networks and interaction facilities. In this study, with a case sample from a public university in Turkey, student teachers’ PLE use and their perceptions regarding these environments are examined. For data collection, the PLE Perception Scale and PLE Use Scale developed by the researchers were used. It was observed that all participants used various PLEs and found them easy and practical on the whole. However, it was found that this utilization mostly had the aim of access and sharing knowledge in learning, while use of constructing and managing it remained limited. Emailing, social networking, file sharing, video sharing, Internet searching, and social encyclopedias were found most commonly used PLEs. Our findings also show that gender and grade level do not have an effect on the perception and use of PLEs.

Personal Learning Environments

2017 ◽  
pp. 236-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Hricko
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Transformative Learning ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Self Directed Learning ◽  
Personal Learning ◽  
Personal Learning Environment ◽  
Personal Learning Environments ◽  
Directed Learning ◽  
Future Of Education

A personal learning environment (PLE) is a construct designed to facilitate the process of learning and knowledge management. As a multidimensional system, a personal learning environment enables users to control the content and process of learning through the selection of resources, applications, and activities that best serve the learning needs. Personal learning environments exist as transformative learning spaces that differentiate to the users' ongoing personal interests and needs. Personal learning environments will continue to transform the educational landscape as technology continues to impact our culture. New modalities of learning will be needed to meet the needs of individuals who wish to pursue education in a manner that best serves their needs. Self-directed learning will require flexible landscapes that can coexist with traditional educational platforms; personal learning environments, if implemented effectively, can meet the emerging challenges in the future of education.

Mobile Web 2.0

2011 ◽  
pp. 180-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clara Pereira Coutinho
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Internet Access ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Web 2.0 Tools ◽  
Mobile Web ◽  
Personal Learning ◽  
Personal Learning Environments ◽  
The Web

In this chapter, the author reflects on the emergence of Mobile Web 2.0, a new paradigm for learning in the 21st century, made possible by the combination of a powerful generation of mobile devices with Internet access and the Web 2.0 technologies that allow collaboration, participation, knowledge sharing and construction. The author presents the theoretical framework which sustains learning with mobile devices, and reflects on the potential of Mobile Web 2.0 for the development of informal learning and the construction of personal learning environments. Finally, the chapter presents educational scenarios for the development of mobile learning using Web 2.0 tools, in particular, those made possible using Twitter and m-Flickr.

scholarly journals First steps towards a university social network on personal learning environments

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Veronica Marin Diaz ◽  
Ana Isabel Vazquez Martinez ◽  
Karen Josephine McMullin
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
University Professors ◽  
Web 2.0 Tools ◽  
Personal Learning ◽  
Personal Learning Environments ◽  
Education Today ◽  
The Media ◽  
Internet In Education ◽  
The University

<p>The evolution of the media and the Internet in education today is an unquestionable reality. At the university level, the use of Web 2.0 tools has become increasingly visible in the new resources that professors have been incorporating both into the classroom and into their research, reinforcing the methodological renewal that the implementation of the EHEA has demanded. The aim of this article is to introduce DIPRO 2.0, an educational social network for university professors to develop their training in the area of personal learning environments through collaborative learning and production of knowledge.</p>

Personal Learning Environments

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian H. D. Fiedler ◽  
Terje Väljataga
Keyword(s):  
Adult Learners ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
The Other ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Web 2.0 Technologies ◽  
Personal Learning ◽  
Digital Instrumentation ◽  
Personal Learning Environments

This paper reviews and critiques how the notion of PLEs has been conceptualised and discussed in literature so far. It interprets the variability of its interpretations and conceptualisations as the expression of a fundamental contradiction between patterns of activity and digital instrumentation in formal education on one hand, and individual experimentation and experience within the digital realm on the other. It is suggested to place this contradiction in the larger socio-historic context of an ongoing media transformation. Thus, the paper argues against the prevalent tendency to base the conceptualisation of PLEs almost exclusively on Web 2.0 technologies that are currently available or emerging, while underlying patterns of control and responsibility often remain untouched. Instead, it proposes to scrutinise these patterns and to focus educational efforts on supporting adult learners to model their learning activities and potential (personal learning) environments while exploring the digital realm.

scholarly journals Tag-based collaborative filtering recommendation in personal learning environments

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 337-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed Amine Chatti ◽  
Simona Dakova ◽  
Hendrik Thus ◽  
Ulrik Schroeder
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Filtering ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Personal Learning ◽  
Personal Learning Environments

scholarly journals Teaching Power Electronics and Digital Electronics using Personal Learning Environments. From Traditional Learning to Remote Experiential Learning

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (08) ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
Mourad Gourmaj ◽  
Ahmed Naddami ◽  
Ahmed Fahli ◽  
Driss Nehari
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environments ◽  
Management System ◽  
Learning By Doing ◽  
Limiting Factors ◽  
Traditional Learning ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Personal Learning ◽  
Learning Modules ◽  
Personal Learning Environments ◽  
Efficient Learning

<p class="0abstractCxSpFirst"><span lang="EN-US">Practical works have a fundamental role in the curriculum of any scientist, engineer, and technician. It helps learners to face the real world and put in practice what they have learned to judge their operability. Moreover, due to some limiting factors and due to the growth number of learners, universities and institutes have become inapt to give efficient learning. Distance education presents a future key to reduce these restrictions. </span></p><p class="0abstractCxSpLast"><span lang="EN-US">Currently, remote experiments together with web-based courses approach significantly contribute to many aspects of education for learners. In this context, the main question addressed is how we ensure that an educational system evolves to better serve the needs of learners? The present work proposes a solution based on student’s Personal Learning Environments ‘PLEs’. PLEs are educational platforms that help learners take control and manage their own learning process, learning modules with remote experiments, for reaching a specific goal. In order to response these criteria we use the Learning Management System (LMS) Moodle, the e-portfolio Mahara, the Remote Laboratory Management System (RLMS) iLab Shared Architecture (ISA) with additional tools and plug-ins to implement the learning by doing environment.</span></p>

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