personal learning environments July 8, 2008
Posted by kieslinger in : Uncategorized , 1 comment so farlast week we had a symposium at ED-MEDIA 2008 on Personal Learning Environment. We had some interesting discussions on what a personal learning environment constitutes of. Is it only the technological landscape or also the other resources, such as people network, organizational processes, etc that form part of the PLE? We were also discussing the relationship between Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs; or also LMSs) and PLEs.
Although I got the feeling that most people in the audience would agree on the preferable shift in responsibilities and control that PLEs bring forward, there was also one or the other voice supporting the VLE vision as the most appropriate tool for teaching in Higher Education. Seems that giving away control is not easy for some organizations and their administrators.
Now I just came across Ton Zylstra’s image of his mostly used tools. To me this is also a nice image of a PLA or better say, of the personal tools landscape of Ton:
What stroke me first when I saw this image is the missing of an e-mail application. I do not have any figures at the moment, but my feeling tells me that almost half of my time I spend using Thunderbird. Apart from that I also spend quite a lot of time in my Web browser and the rest, who knows? But certainly not in any VLE.
Tags: personallearning environment, personal tools landscape