Social Software, Personal Learning Environments and Lifelong Competence Development
Good paper that looks at the links between competencies and the personal learning environment (PLE). Attwell notes that while there has been a hostile reaction from the education community to social networking applications, research about SMEs (small and medium sized enterprises) shows that people actually learn informally and socially, in communities of practice. Informal learning isn't just some uncredentialed version of formal learning, which is why recognition has been difficult. It is closely tied to practice, and practice varies from community to community. "Broad policy decisions over funding and support need to be taken as close to practice as possible and that such policy implementation needs to be enabling rather than restrictive." Blog post with a link to the paper (see the bottom of the page) in RTF. Graham Attwell, The Wales Wide Web, December 11, 2006. [Link] [Tags: Research, Online Learning, Informal Learning, Networks, Personal Learning Environment, Gaming] [Previous][Next]Comments
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