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Limitless learning

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The personal learning environment (PLE) is still a bone of contention. Over at the Open University of Catalonia, in Barcelona, Ismael Peña-López has been doing some stirling work on theories surrounding Vygotsky's learning model and PLEs. For me, the PLE is peculiar to the individual who makes it. Unported License.

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The personal web

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With the Southampton PLE Conference #PLE_SOU at full throttle, I thought it would be a good time to reiterate my views on the personal web. Personal Web Tools (PWTs) are thought by some to be synonymous with PLEs (Personal Learning Environments) but the two should not be confused. Sound like a PLE? Almost, but not quite.

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Blogging: Five of the best

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All this has been possible because they are all labelled as Creative Commons with a repurpose licence. As an added measure of my invective, I found an image of fire and published it at the head of my post. Anatomy Of A PLE (>29,000 views) 9. 2005) Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity.

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When worlds collide

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This is reminiscent of the discussions held at the recent PLE conference in Barcelona, where some theorists attempted to defuse the tensions between didactic institutional provision and individualised PLEs by proposing a compromise. An institutional PLE? Tags: PLE education blogs social media learning iPLE Web 2.0

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Everyone has one

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Why should we question whether students have the competency to build their own PLEs, when in fact most learners already have their own PLE structure of tools sorted out when they arrive at university. They are experts in them, after all. Today you are You, that is truer than true. Unported License.

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Selfie number 10

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Recently, in the wake of the #blimage blogging challenge I've been thinking about the power of photos and images. I first met Joyce at the first Personal Learning Environment (PLE) conference in Barcelona in 2009 and we have been friends ever since. I also met George for the first time at the Barcelona PLE event.

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The Melbourne set

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It was great talking again with Colin Warren (@colwar) whom I first met face to face in Barcelona at last year's PLE conference, and to feel intuitively that we are kindred spirits. Image by Joyce Seitzinger The Melbourne set by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

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