PLEs - undated
From JITT
This page and other PLE pages in this wiki (reach them from Personal Learning Environments) have been constructed and are maintained by Mark van Harmelen. Feedback and suggestions for additions are most welcome. Contact Mark as mark -a-t- cs . man . ac . uk
JISC e-Learning Focus, Personal Learning, http://www.elearning.ac.uk/subjects/PLE/personal%20learning/topic_view
A bunch of links to JISC-funded projects and other material, reverse chronological order.
Michael Feldstein and Patrick Masson, Unbolting the Chairs: Making Learning Management Systems More Flexible http://www.elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=tutorials&article=22-1
Discusses mashups as learning objects and learning applications. The rate of development of these outstrips rate of LMS extension development. Some figures supplied. Considers where this is taking us ...
"We started this article by contending that the chairs in our virtual classroom are bolted to the virtual floors. This metaphor radically understates the case, partly because it reinforces false distinctions between learning environments, learning objects, and learning activities. It is this last category—the vastly rich variety of critical learning interactions between students, their teacher, each other, and the world—that we should care about when we choose our online learning platforms. Every class can be seen as a series of genre moments. There is the moment in the Art History class when the students discuss some detail of a painting. There is the moment in the business school class when a student must report the best and worst case financial scenarios for a given course of action. There is the moment in the creative writing class when students are asked to write about a particular place. The ideal online learning platform enables us to reproduce these genre moments and create new ones. But that will only happen when the platform is designed such that teachers and learners can shape it to their own needs. And that, in turn, will only come to pass if organizations demand it."
