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Personal Work and Learning Environments (PWLE) - More Discussion

An article worth reading. I will mention in passing that I am opposed to the trend coming from the corporate learning side of the house to treat PLEs as work tools. What is it about people in corporate learning that they feel the need to perpetuate the attitude of servitude it seems all learners must adopt. We don't exist to work for a corporation; our learning, our minds, our most valuable asset of all, ought to serve our own purposes first and foremost. But I guess it's employers, not employees, paying the bills for corporate e-learning consultants, and thy wanna hear what they wanna hear. Meanwhile - for the rest of us - the reason we call them personal learning environments is that they are indended to serve our needs, not someone else's. Tony karrer, eLearning Technology, June 7, 2007. [Link] [Tags: Online Learning] [Previous][Next]

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Re: Personal Work and Learning Environments (PWLE) - More Discussion

Anymouse, June 7, 2007

Just by the way, I work in corporate learning, and I would like to register my voice as one who bucks that trend. I do NOT share the view that learning is a "work" thing or a "for work" thing. It's a life thing.

And I'm with you that we don't serve the corporation. In fact, if the corporation doesn't serve the people, there's something wrong, because the corporation *is* the people. For real - not in some clicheic sense.

Mind you, I often feel like the voice crying in the wilderness as I speak up for the interests of the learner in meeting after meeting where the focus is on the delivery of a product.

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Re: Personal Work and Learning Environments (PWLE) - More Discussion

Anymouse, June 8, 2007

I disagree Stephen. Corporations (really in my case small business) have given me the freedom to become a lifelong learner. [Comment] [Permalink] [Previous][Next]

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