A Reference Model for Personal Learning Environments Scott Wilson Colin Milligan
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Existing Models (no existing systems) Our initial vision Non-learning specific models Responses to our vision
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Future VLE: Scott Wilson
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Web 2.0 Meme Map - Tim O'Reilly
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Digital Lifestyle Aggregator - Marc Canter
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Dave Tosh: Personal Learning Landscape
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Weblog and Aggregation Organisational Online Communication Model - James Farmer
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EduGlu - D'arcy Norman
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Common Features
Feeds for collecting resources and other data Conduits for sharing and publishing Services for interacting with organisations Personal information management Ambiguity of teacher - learner role
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Over lunch, Think about: Do these models fit with your notion of a PLE Do you have a PLE? If so, what is it?
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PLE Learner
University VLE
But …
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Also, chat, browse, participate in collab activity (e.g. simulation)
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Patterns Wide choice of systems examined that have characteristics of interest From the systems we emerge common patterns into a pattern language The pattern language is applied to the development of prototypes
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Tools and Software analysed
Email and PIM (Outlook, Chandler) Chat and Messaging (iChat, msn) Calendaring and Scheduling (iCal, BaseCamp) News Aggregation (NetNewsWire, Shrook) Weblogging, Pers. Publishing (Flock, WordPress) Social Software (Flickr, 43Things, del.icio.us) Authoring and Collab. Working tools (Writely) Integration Tools (Netvibes, SuprGlu)
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Pattern Categories
Context Patterns (8) Conversation Patterns (13) Network Patterns (4) Resource Patterns (26) Social Patterns (8) Team Patterns (10) Temporal Patterns (4) Workflow Patterns (2) Activity Patterns (2) Other Patterns (3)
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Services A number of key services recur in the patterns: Activity Management Workflow Syndication and Posting Group Rating, Annotating, and Recommending Presence Personal Profile Exploration and Trails … and ones which are generic
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Activity Management Service Service allows a PLE user to
publish activities, join activities others have created, contribute resources for activities access resources for activities.
Broker for Workflow service
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Questions What systems have you experienced that might count as a PLE? Can a PLE be an institutional tool? What can’t you do with an eLearning 2.0 approach that you can with a VLE?
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Further Information
http://www.cetis.ac.uk/members/ple/
Phil Beauvoir: p.beauvoir@bolton.ac.uk Oleg Liver: o.liber@bolton.ac.uk Mark Johnson: mwj1@bolton.ac.uk Colin Milligan: colin.milligan@strath.ac.uk Paul Sharples: ps7@bolton.ac.uk Scott Wilson: s.wlson@bangor.ac.uk