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Week 6 - Personal Learning Environments & Networks

Dates: February 21 - 28, 2011

Overview
A Personal Learning Network is a structure that reflects relatedness to other people. A Personal Learning Environment is the technical environment that supports this structure. Information sources (such as Google or databases) can be part of a PLN. A PLN is grown by adding new people or connections. A PLN is a reflection of social and information networks (and analysis methods).

Readings

• EDUCAUSE, EDUCAUSE: 7 Things you should know about PLE's (.pdf)
• Skip Via, Personal Learning Networks for Educators (video)
• Stephen Downes, Learning Networks in Practice (.pdf)
• Scott Wilson, Prof. Oleg Liber, Mark Johnson, Phil Beauvoir, Paul Sharples & Colin Milligan, Personal Learning Environments: Challenging the dominant design of educational systems (.pdf)
• Alec Couros, Developing Personal Learning Networks for Open and Social Learning (.pdf)
• Scott Leslie, Mother of All PLE Diagram Compilation
• Rita Kop, The Design and Development of a Personal Learning Environment
• Dave Cormier, Five points about PLEs and PLNs
• Stephen Downes, Personal Learning Environments (Video)

Seminars

• Wednesday: Live Session: Location: Elluminate , Cable Green,
  Time:8:00 p.m. Moscow; 5:00 p.m. London; 12 noon New York; 9:00 a.m. Los Angeles; midnight Thursday Beijing


• Friday: Live Session: Location: Elluminate Facilitator's discussion.
  Time:8:00 p.m. Moscow; 5:00 p.m. London; 12 noon New York; 9:00 a.m. Los Angeles; midnight Saturday Beijing

Activities

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