What is PLE?
December 3, 2008
What is PLE?
PLE means Personal Learning Environment
A design of a PLE should be based on the following characteristics:
1. It should be learner centered
2. It should provide the environment for a life-long learning: So when the learner grows up, it should grow up, too
3. A PLE should be designed very individually according the needs of the learner
4. Therefore it should be location-independent, so that the learner can use his personal PLE from every place in the world
Definitions:
According to W. Neuhaus (FU Berlin) definition of PLE we can understand PLE as a very personal infrastructure, which I can use to organize my learning. It might be divided in two dimensions:
The personal dimension: personal surrounding my concrete, my friends, my colleagues, my working place, the library I use to work in, etc.
And the virtuell dimension, which gives access to communication tools and searching machines and multimedia-based information.
More information for further reading:
The personal learning evironment blog:
http://zope.cetis.ac.uk/members/ple
Here you can find definitions of PLE, posts of people who created their own PLE and discussions how a PLE could look like, etc.
JISC – E-learning focus
http://www.elearning.ac.uk/news_folder/ple%20event
Here you will find definitions of PLE as well as discussions, summaries of congresses about PLE, etc.
