e-Information or p-Learning? PLE conference Oct09
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The Personal Learning Environment p-Learning or e- Information? Rita Kop
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Slides used for invited talk at the online conference on Personal Learning environment and Personal Learning Networks, October 2009, jointly organised by the University of Manitoba and the National Research Council Canada
Transcript of e-Information or p-Learning? PLE conference Oct09
The Personal Learning Environment
p-Learning or e-Information?
Rita Kop
Key Themes
Learning environment or learning place?
Learning environment or learning place?
Educational Challenges
Educational Challenges
Well-designed Personal Learning Environment
Well-designed Personal Learning Environment
Conclusions
Conclusions
The learning environment
Other influences on learning
Essence of a Personal Learning Environment
‘1.To liberate access to resources …
2. To liberate the sharing of skills… 3. To liberate the critical and
creative resources of people...4. To liberate the individual… by
providing him with the opportunity to draw on the experience of his peers and to entrust himself to the teacher, guide, adviser or healer of his choice’
Illich, 1971, p.103
A personal or a social place?
A place that ‘hosts the regular, voluntary, informal and happily anticipated gatherings of Individuals beyond the realms of home and work’ Oldenburg, 1989
‘I engage in dialogue because I recognise the social and not merely the individualistic character of knowing’. Freire,1999
‘How can Personal Learning Environments be reconciled with the social nature of learning?’ Attwell, 2009
ChallengesGroups – Networks – Collectives: Presence
ChallengesLearner autonomy
Learner Control
Conative
Algorithmic
Semiotic
Types of social interaction
Confidence Initiative Motivation
Learningactivity Sequencing Pacing
Resource selection
Text-hypertext MultimediaSearch
approaches
Economic
Perceived value of knowledge
Cost-benefitratio
Opportunity costalternatives
Value assessmentand recognition
Life contextSocial
environment
MonitoringEvaluation
Bouchard, 2008, p123
Informal versus formal learning
Traditional formal education: •Institution in control •Passivity •Critical experts •Knowledge is spoon-fed •Artificial situation •Knowledge validated by quality systems •Qualification driven •Human contact •Higher order thinking?•Qualification
Internet-based informal learning: •Learner in control •Activity, participation and interaction •(Critical) experts ?•Knowledge needs to be distilled from information found on Internet •Embedded in real life •Self-assessment or peer- validation of knowledge •Interest driven •Human contact via messages •Deep or shallow thinking? •Qualification?
Design of the new learning experiences
‘Our “audiences” aren’t audiences at all, but rather creators, and our job is not to lecture but to enable. With this new approach comes not only design challenges but the joy of reconnecting people to each other’.Michael Wesch, 2008
Designing a Personal Learning Environment
• Design usability issues:• Simplicity – learnability
-memorability• Accessibility• Relevance
Design dimensions to experience:
Personal learning:• Learner choice and control• Creation and expression• Aggregation • Link to (challenging) knowledge bank• People
‘Design is the processof evoking meaning’
Shedroff, 2009, p4.
Engaging learning experiences
From e-Information to p-Learning
Model of PLE based learningFeeling
Reflecting
Understanding
Reviewing
Adapted from JISC model of learning using e-portfolios (2009)
Aggregating
Aggregating
Feeling
