PLEs - 2000
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Oleg Lieber, Colloquia - a Conversation Manager, Campus Wide Information Systems, 17(2), pp 56-62, http://toomol.bangor.ac.uk/files/CWIS_paper.doc 2000
See also the Colloquia web site.
Colloquia, undeniably the first PLE, provides support for a conversational and activity based model of learning. Colloquia maintains information about people, resources, and tasks. Teachers set up activities and sub-activities at different levels of granularity and allocate people, resources and tasks to those activities. Learners may create sub-activities. Personalisation is only possible in a limited sense in that teachers and learners may add resources for an activity or subactivity.
Colloquia is a strong formative influence on PLEX. See also PLE implementations.
Colloquia uses peer-to-peer communication mediated by an e-mail server to support the above activities. Colloquia is neither plugable nor functionally extensible, and offers neither package nor application compatibility. Colloquia could be used across institutions, although probably with a centralised e-mail server.
Jason Frand, The Information-Age Mindset: Changes in Students and Implications for Higher Education, EDUCAUSE Review, 35(5), http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm00/articles005/erm0051.pdf September/October 2000, pp. 15–24
Early publication on the effect of the internet on students, picks up on these points:
- Observations of change
- Computers Aren’t Technology
- Internet Better Than TV
- Reality No Longer Real
- Doing Rather Than Knowing
- How people do things
- Nintendo over Logic
- Multitasking Way of Life
- Typing Rather Than Handwriting
- Needs conditioned by the cyberage
- Staying Connected
- Zero Tolerance for Delays
- Consumer/Creator Blurring
