PLE AND PLN

1. PERSONAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT AND
NETWORK.
• WHAT IS PERSONAL LEARNING NETWORK?
• WHY DO WE HAVE TO INCORPORATE THIS TO OUR EDUACTIONAL SYSTEM?
• HOW CAN P.L.E AND P.L.N HELP TO TRANSFORM KNOWLEDGE?
• WHAT ARE THE FEATURES ASSOCIATED WITH P.L.E AND P.L.N’S?
• THESES ARE ALL QUESTIONS WE HAVE TO ASK OURSELVES AND ADDITIONALLY
WE HAVE TO COME UP WITH ANSWERS THAT ARE INNOVATIVE AND PROMOTE
CRITICAL THINKING.
• SO THE FOLLOWING PRESENTATION WILL DISCUSS AND EXPLAIN ALL THE
FEATURES ASSOCIATED WITH PERSONAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT AND IT WILL
FURTHER DISCUSS HOW PLE LEADS ONE TO DEVELOP HIS/HER OWN PERSONAL
OR PROFESSIONAL LEARNIG NETWORK.

2. WHAT IS A PLE?
• A Personal Learning Environment (PLE)
is a facility for an individual to
aggregate, manipulate and share digital
artefacts of their on going learning
experiences.
• The PLE follows a learner-centric
approach, allowing the use of lightweight
services and tools that belong to and are
controlled by individual learners.
• This allows learners to critically evaluate
and construct knowledge. In addition this
helps to produce learners which will be
innovative in applying the use of
technology in the work place.
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3. P.L.E allows Access to…..
• One-to-one computing
such as the Maine laptop project,
now spreading rapidly
• One Laptop per Child
This means everyone should
Have access to basic computer
Skills.
• Wireless access
3G networks, WLAN… this should be used
to
Conduct research and search for new
information

4. THIS DIAGRAM SHOWS
ALL THE STEPS THAT IV
- To subject mater
- To peers and
ONE SHOULD ATTAIN IN Actively
involved and
educators
- To another
DEVELPING A PLE. connected
professionals
• In individual or
collaborative learning
III • In social and
knowledge network Personal
Trying activities
engaging • In pro-actively competence
contributing own development
insights and expertise
• In engaging in objectives
informal
knowledge
II exchange
• In
Interested revising/extending
competence
development
• Of relationship objectives
and connections
among peers and
I knowledge
Aware • Of own
opportunity for
value-created
involvement
Competence development lifecycle in a
learning network (according Rogers)

5. PLE CHARACTERISTICS
• Supporting learners in planning an controlling their learning journey
• Setting their own learning goals
• Monitoring their progress towards achieving these goals
• Managing their learning – both content and process
• Enabling learners to aggregate resources and personalise their learning environment
• Providing recommendations to learners about resources and other learners (‘study -buddies’)
Collaborating with others in the process of learning
• Providing support to learners for community building and collaborative activities. Moreover
there should be a shared of learning experience instead of a lone study.

6. The Idea of the PLE…
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/members/ple/resources/edf.ppt

7. Open Source Applications
• Learning Management Systems
such as Moodle, Sakai, Bodington, A Tutor
• Development and Community Tools
such as LAMS, Connexions, ELGG, Drupal,
WordPress
• Supporting Software
such as Firefox, Thunderbird,
Open Office, Audacity

8. Open Educational Resources
• MIT’s Open Course Ware project
and the Open Course Ware Consortium
• Open University’s Open Courses
• OER initiatives
Hewlett, Welcome, OECD, UNESCO
• Creative Commons and CC materials
in Flickr, Yahoo, Google, Wikipedia, Wikiversity, etc.

9. “…a form of knowledge and a pedagogy based on the idea that knowledge is distributed
across a network of connections and that learning consists of the ability to construct and
traverse those networks. “
Source: http://www.elearnspace.org/media/ProfessionalDevelopment/player.html George Siemens

10. Building PLE on start pages
Personal Learning Environment
PLEs are systems that help learners take control of and manage their own learning.
This includes providing support for learners to set their own learning goals, manage
their learning;
managing both content and process;
communicate with others in the process of learning and thereby achieve learning goals.

11. Professional Network Organizing
More of the students who are deeply involved in the
subject matter of the course and think in perspective
are interested in:
 more professional information
 contact to experts and specialists
 they joint to groups with special interests,
professional networks
 they receive professional network services
 they can discuss interests
 stay informed
 share knowledge

12. Searcher Learner Researcher
Roles Assemblator of of subject Innovator
data, information, kno matter, technologies, ho
wledge w to learn
Activities
Search
Commu- Productivity Customi- Create
Gather Connect
Aggre- nicate improvement zation
A model of PLE Building
Share
gate
Compo-
Start page environment
Facebook/ nents, pa
Chat/AV
RSS
feeds, links
Search conference Twitter/ To-do
list, notes, comments nels, tab
Tools/Services
engines Ning s, widget
s
Images/
Social Feel
book- AV Email, f widgets
orum
calendar and
marking Blogs, wikis look
Design
Choose learning
technology/ strategy
application
Share
Processes
Plan
Goals, needs, interests, motivation,
results, eval
Share
problems
activities
Arrange uate
environment/
environment
collaborate
Document
Extend/modify Perform
results, anal
environment activities
yze

13. WHY PLN?
• Overcomes isolation of online teachers/learners
• Supports knowledge construction through distributed nodes and networks
• Empowers learners to become self-led, independent knowledge seekers and creators
• Allows customization of learning paths specific to individual interests or needs
• It’s fun and you can take it with you!

14. WHAT IS A PLN?

15. A Working Definition
• A personal or professional learning network (PLN) involves an
individual’s topic-oriented goal, a set of practices & techniques aimed at
attracting and organizing a variety of relevant content sources, selected
for their value, to help the owner accomplish a professional goal or
personal interest.

16. EXAMPLE
PLN
Started the wiki
Announced it in the A growing and improving
blogosphere and collaborative document
twitterverse (wiki)

17. THE COMPONENTS OF A PLN
4 COMPONENTS OF A PLN
• Professional goal or Personal Interest
• Techniques & Practices (networking habits)
• Basis for Selection
• Infrastructure for attracting & organizing content from
network nodes

18. Professional Network Organizing
PLE as part of Personal Learning Network and Professional
Learning Network
Self-arrangement of
network services
Personal Learning
Environment Personal
Learning
Network
Receive
professional
network services
Professional
Learning Network

19. Conclusion
• A model for PLE building is proposed
• Social networks contribute to the processes by which learners meet and
communicate, and pool, share, learn about and reuse their resources, knowledge
and competencies
• PLE building is found to be a core for PLN and PLN deployment
• The transition from PLE to PLN is an important step that supports students
to become self-organized and life-long learners

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