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Social tools on the Landing
Graphic representing most of the main social tools the Landing provides
- Sets, nets and groups revisited
July 3, 2024 - 10:41pm
Jon Dron
Jon Dron
still learning, never learning enough
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Could you comment on why this is a Personal Learning Environment rather than a Shared Learning Environment? While I could see a plug-in and process that establishes a PLE I would have thought the institutional ownership of infrastructure and program would have made this a SLE. Comments on the value of PLE versus SLE?
It's about personal control. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_learning_environment for a definition and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_personal_learning_environments for the place of Elgg in all of that. The point is that it is a space where you pull together and organise for your own benefit the people and things that help you learn, as opposed to a space that someone else organises on your behalf like a VLE (which is also a shared learning environment). I don't love the term - my PLE is much bigger than a simple toolset in a single application- but it's a commonplace term to describe such things and the Elgg Dashboard is one of the defining examples of the genre.