Three Flavors of PLEs: A review
Abstract
Personal learning environments (PLEs) comprise a relatively new research stream which aim at empowering learners in designing (ICT-based) environments for their everyday learning activities. This learner-centric consideration, however, implies that PLE software has to sup-port users in and beyond different and highly varying contexts, e.g. also in transitions between contexts like university-to-job (transition from learning to earning), from-one-job-to-another (new job opportunities), or from formal-to-informal-learning. Basically, research and development on PLE topics is driven by a variety of (very different) communities. Thus, PLE software has being developed on the basis on very different paradigms, e.g. mash-up technology, e-learning 2.0 concepts, psycho-pedagogical principles, community features etc. In this short paper we attempt to identify such driving factors and characteristics of PLE solutions on the basis of literature and technology review. Consequently we propose a framework for describing PLEs according to these characteristics and give concrete examples.
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