Personal Learning Environments
Just took a long walk and listened to this podcast along the way. Great discussion of the issues around PLEs. One thing I took away was Liber’s point that the WebCT/Blackboard/Sakai/Moodle systems still have a place, but they need a way to integrate their content into other systems a student uses. How about RSS feeds and a blog API interface. Then I can pull content out, and add posts back in on a system of my choosing! And these technologies are here now. We don’t need to take time and money to create something ourselves, as was required in the past. Just look around — the future is here.
Derek Morrison, Editor of Auricle, interviews Oleg Liber, Professor of e-Learning at the University of Bolton and Director of CETIS about Personal Learning Environments. With the HE sector’s current focus on the ’student learning experience’ Oleg provides some useful reflection points about the nature of the virtual learning environments we now need to provide modern students with. This is a 20 minute long MP3 recording (~9.6MB).
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