Introducing personal learning environments to informal learners: lessons learned from the OpenLearn case study

Mikroyannidis, Alexander and Connolly, Teresa (2012). Introducing personal learning environments to informal learners: lessons learned from the OpenLearn case study. In: PLE Conference 2012, 11-13 July 2012, Aveiro, Portugal.

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Abstract

Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) hold the potential to address the needs of informal learners for multi-sourced content and easily customisable learning environments. This paper presents the lessons learned from a case study regarding the use of widget-based PLEs by informal learners for finding and evaluating Open Educational Resources (OER). The lessons learned from this case study have allowed the authors to detect some of the obstacles for the successful adoption of PLEs by informal learners, as well as to identify ways for overcoming these obstacles.

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2012 The Authors

External Project Funding Details:

Funded Project Name	Project ID	Funding Body
Not Set	Not Set	Partially funded through the ROLE Integrated Project, part of the Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP7) of the European Union in Information and Communication Technologies

Keywords:

personal learning environment; open educational resource; informal learning

Academic Unit/Department:

Knowledge Media Institute

Interdisciplinary Research Centre:

Centre for Research in Computing (CRC)

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