Personal Learning

Personal learning is a major theme of the DfES and HEFCE e-learning strategies published in 2005.

JISC-CETIS 2006: Linking Formal and Informal learning

A report from the JISC-CETIS conference held in Salford on the 14th and 15th November. This year, the focus was on "the gap between learning within the (fire)wall of a well-established institution and learning on the wild web and beyond."

Reference Model/Domain map projects: Surfacing complexity

For the last 18 months a group of six JISC funded projects have been mapping and modelling a number of e-learning domains to provide a link between the e-Framework for Education and Research services and users. On the 10th October these projects gathered at Aston University to share and reflect on those experiences and to pass on their wisdom to those wishing to bid into the next round of funding.

Scott Wilson - Pushing the boundaries of the VLE

Scott Wilson reports from the SURF "Pushing the Boundaries of the VLE" conference held last week in Utrecht. Some developments from Sakai on creation of PLEs from VLEs.

Wilson et al.:PLEs:Challenging the dominant design of Educational Systems

In this paper for the ECTEL meeting next month Scott Wilson et al. argue that personal learning environments present an alternative design pattern to VLEs with the potential to create educational systems which by using social software can be both personal and global.

ALT-C 2006: Moving from the institution to the individual

Last week was the 13th International ALT conference held in Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. There was a lot of interest in personal learning environments and what effect their widespread use will have on institutions.

What is a PLE? The future or just another buzz word?

On June the Seventh, the Chancellors Conference Centre in Manchester provided the venue for an event hosted by the CETIS Pedagogy Forum to discuss a new and exciting topic, the Personal Learning Environment (PLE).

PLE (Personal Learning Environment) event

CETIS is holding an event: "What is a PLE? The future or just another buzz word?", to discuss developments in Personal Learning Environments on the 7th June in Manchester.

The Virtual Learning Environment takes it personally

Derek Morrison interviews Oleg Liber about the Personal Learning Environments project. There is a podcast of the interview and a discussion about how PLEs will disrupt the current status quo of or educational institutions.

The community sets priorities for the e-Framework

The second JISC/CETIS Conference was held at Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, on the 15th and 16th November. This, now annual, conference brings together many of the development community, particularly those working on JISC funded projects, along with domain experts and policy makers from further afield including the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and the Netherlands.

Personal Learning Environment Project Blog

A Blog from the PLE project team.

Personalisation and Digital Technologies

This report by Hannah Green, Keri Facer and Tim Rudd, with Patrick Dillon and Peter Humphreys argues that the education system should be re-engineered so that the system conforms to the learner rather than the other way around. Via Scott Wilson on the personal learning environments blog.

Personal Learning Environments project

CETIS has a new JISC project focussing on Personal Learning Environments.

eLAWS project website

A direct link to the e-Learning Annotation Web Service web site.

RAMBLE

A summary of the RAMBLE (Remote Authoring of Mobile Blogs for Learning Environments)project funded by the distributed e-learning strand.

Interactive Logbook

An interactive log book tool

SHELLFISH

A summary of the SHELLFISH project funded by the distributed e-learning strand.

eLAWS

A web service for annotation of online documents.

Bodington III PLE

Development of Bodington into a personal learning environment.

RAMBLE project website

A direct link to the RAMBLE (Remote Authoring of Mobile Blogs for Learning Environments) project based at Oxford University.

Interactive Logbook project website

A direct link to the project website.