Personal Learning Environments
George Siemens, elearnspace, May 14, 2007.

George Siemens did a preconference session on personal learning environments and posted his notes to a wiki. More of the same (not that this is a criticism - the concept is being built iteratively). "A PLE is characterized by the freeform use of a set of lightweight services and tools that belong to and are controlled by individual learners. Rather than integrating different services into a centralized system, the idea is to provide the learner with a myriad of services and hand over control to her to select and use the services the way she deems fit." (Hits Today: 0 Total: 574) [Direct Link] [Tags: Connectivism, Personal Learning Environment]

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Re: Personal Learning Environments

Anymouse, May 18, 2007

Hi Stephen,

actually you are quoting my definition of a PLE. See it here (http://mohamedaminechatti.blogspot.com/2007/01/personal-environments-loosely-joined.html)

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Stephen Downes, May 18, 2007

It's not "your" definition. The concept of the PLE is being developed by a loose collection of people, each of whom is informed by the other. Any particular element of that development - such as a definition - has as much of the others' input in it as of the actual author. Siemens correctly links to where the definition was stated. But you have no proprietary interest in it other than that. [Comment] [Permalink] [Previous][Next]

Re: Personal Learning Environments

Anymouse, May 21, 2007

The acronym "PLE" was minted in a project created by my colleagues Oleg Liber, Mark Johnson, Colin Milligan, Phil Beauvoir and Paul Sharples and I. However, Stephen is absolutely correct in stating that the concept has/is/will be developed collectively by many authors; the acronym itself was something we placed onto a concept that had been emerging among the writings of several people for a few years that was starting to coalesce into something more tangible.

Mark van Harmalen has helpfully placed the history on Wikipedia here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_personal_learning_environments. [Comment] [Permalink] [Previous][Next]

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