On Saturday, I conducted a workshop for CADE 2007 on personal learning environmnets. The notes used for the session are posted in a wiki - feel free to change, add, or whatever. We had a fairly international group in attendance, so the discussion during the session was great. I spent time playing around with definitions - there are many - and settled very loosely on one I offered in a previous elearnspace pots: Essentially, they are a collection of tools, brought together under the conceptual notion of openness, interoperability, and learner control. This creates additional challenges - is SecondLife part of a PLE? What about Facebook? What about devices - such as mobile phones and PDAs? While I think it's still a bit too early to define PLEs too precisely (it's all changing too quickly), some type of working definition is likely required to make serious inroads in discussions with academics or corporate training managers.
Posted by gsiemens at May 13, 2007 7:47 PM | TrackBack