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Three Flavors of PLEs

PLE Conference, Southampton, July 11-13, 2011

Barbara Krumay, Felix Mödritscher (speaker)Vienna University of Economics &Business, Austria

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Agenda

1. Seeing PLEs through the glasses of different disciplines

2. Flavors of PLEs

a. Educators and psychologists

b. Technologists

c. Community facilitatory

3. Model and method to characterize PLE developments

4. Example, discussion, and conclusions

1. Different disciplines influence PLE development!

Personal Learning Environments (PLEs): parts of a digital ecosystem with different ‘species’ (learners,

tools, technologies, artefacts etc.) and their interactions breaking up with traditional paradigms and focussing on new

aspects (peer-to-peer architectures, openness, self-organization, networked collaboration etc.)

yet strongly varying solutionapproaches, depending on thecommunity driving thedevelopment (researchers,practitioner)!

[cf. talk on the PLE recommenders

developed in the ROLE project;

session 21 (Wednesday, 12.00)]

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2. PLE Flavors: Psychologists & Educators

Selected topics: personalization, competencies, outcome-orientation, reflection, Self-Regulated Learning etc.

[Fruhmann et al., 2010]

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Different learners

Global Learning platform

Different job roles

Companies goals and individual goals

Individual and cultural differences in SRL

different educational settings

Learning success

Motivation

Learning experiences

Different levels of SRL-competencies

Transfer in job context

Learning performance

2. PLE Flavors: Technologists

Selected topics: mash-ups, interoperability, personalization, recommenders, lightweight APIs, opportunistic design, etc.

[Mödritscher & Wild, 2009]

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using www.objectspot.org in

using www.objectspot.org

{ using http://… }

bookmark literature

find papers

{ do s.th. } { for an output }

RSS feed

?Recommendations: tools, activities, …

Recommendations:pre-defined PLE patterns

Tracking:interactions & usage

Scrutable:shift control to user

combination with distance.ktu.lt/scuttle

using teldev.wu.ac.at/xowiki

summarise papers

2. PLE Flavors: Community facilitators

Selected topics: community building and sustaining, context-awareness, recommender, privacy & trust, commenting, rating, PLE practice sharing etc.

[Mödritscher et al., 2010]

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3. Model and method to characterize PLE developments

Characterization of PLEs according to the driving disciplines The list of disciplines can be extended if new influences can be

identified (e.g. evolutionary biology; see EFEPLE workshop) Different kinds of features

Core features of one discipline, like self-regulated learning (pedagogy) or tool interoperability (technology)

Core for one discipline,peripheral for another one

Peripheral for more disciplines(e.g. core for another area)

Characterization along thesediscipline-related feature groups,which we call ‘PLE flavors’

Currently we see these threedominant areas

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4. Example, discussion, conclusions

Example: prototypic PLE solution (PAcMan add-on, enabled by our practice sharing approach [PLEShare repository])

Method to plan, improve, analyze, compare PLE developments Yet: ‘three PLE flavors’ based on our observation in ROLE; lack of

application (other solutions should be analyzed as well)

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Please vote for our mediacast

if you like the idea of PLE practice sharing!

http://vimeo.com/groups/ple2011/videos/25817690

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Thanks for your attention!