This document outlines the agenda and activities for a collaborative working session on personal learning environments (PLEs). It instructs participants to: 1. Form expert teams to discuss chapters they read and the main messages, important concepts, new insights, and unclear areas. 2. Return to their home teams to teach one another about their chapter's main message, important concepts using a mind map. 3. As a large group, discuss the important concepts found across all articles, how they are the same or different, how concepts are connected, and how to coherently present the main points. 4. Have each member read one of four research articles on PLEs to further their individual understanding.

1. Venla Vuorjoki
venla.vuorjoki@oulu.fi
JIGSAW SESSION 2
INTRO
Collaborative working
session
Wednesday 23rd
September /
Friday 25th September

2. Venla Vuorjoki
venla.vuorjoki@oulu.fi
EXPERT TEAM
Based on the book chapters you have been
reading at home, create expert teams to
discuss:
- What was the main message of this book
chapter?
- What were the most important concepts in
the chapter and how would you define
them?
- What was new and interesting for you in
that chapter?
- Was there something you didn’t
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3. Venla Vuorjoki
venla.vuorjoki@oulu.fi
HOME TEAM
Now get back to your own
home team to teach
everyone there:
- What was the main
message of your book
chapter?
- What were the most
important concepts in the
chapter and how would
you define them?
 Create a mind map as a
team, using…
Picture from:
http://www.mhaensel.de/unterrichtsmethod
en/gruppenpuzzle.html

4. Venla Vuorjoki
venla.vuorjoki@oulu.fi
WHAT IMPORTANT
CONCEPTS CAN BE FOUND
IN ALL THE ARTICLES? ARE
THE CORE CONCEPTS
SAME OR DIFFERENT?
HOW ARE
CONCEPTS FROM
DIFFERENT
ARTICLES
CONNECTED TO
EACH OTHER?
HOW CAN WE
CREATE A COHERENT
PRESENTATION
ABOUT THE MAIN
POINTS OF ALL THE
ARTICLES?
WHAT IS
IMPORTANT
IN ALL OF
THIS?

5. Venla Vuorjoki
venla.vuorjoki@oulu.fi
JIGSAW 3: READING MATERIALS
Gallego, M. J. & Gamiz, M. V. (2014). Personal Learning Environments (PLE)
in the Academic Achievement of University Students
http://journal.acce.edu.au/index.php/AEC/article/view/30
Cao, Y., Kovachev, D., Klamma, R., Jarke, M. & Lau, R. W. H. (2015). Tagging diversity in
personal learning environments.
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs40692-015-0027-0#page-1
Rahimi, E., van der Berg, J. & Veen, W. (2015). Facilitating student-driven constructing of
learning enviroments using Web 2.0 personal learning environments.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360131514002322
Dabbagh, N. & Kitsantas, A. (2012). Personal Learning Environments, social media,
and self-regulated learning: A natural formula for connecting formal and informal learning
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1096751611000467
One member of
the team reads
one of these

6. Venla Vuorjoki
venla.vuorjoki@oulu.fi
Venla Vuorjoki
venla.vuorjoki@oulu.fi
QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS?