Personal Learning Environments center

1. The future of education?

2. = professional learning communities
= professional learning networks
= managed learning environments
= personal learning environments

3. Learner
Adapted from: Alec Couros, PhD Thesis illustration, the Networked Teacher
http://educationaltechnology.ca/couros/580

4. Personal Learning Environments (PLE) :
Systems that help learners take control of
and manage their own learning.
--Mark van Hamerlen
This includes allowing learners to:
• set their own learning goals
• manage their learning, both content and process
• communicate with others in the process of learning

5. • “The NMC Horizon
Report: 2011 K-12
Edition" suggests that
the education
community will
embrace cloud
computing, mobiles,
game-based learning,
open content, learning
analytics and personal
learning environments.

6. How do we make it happen?
Think global, act local.
1. Administrative modeling
1. Train staff
2. Infrastructure

8. = you, me, all learners
= we are living in the 21st century;
learners are digital natives
= hone your skills, train your staff,
build your infrastructure
= starting now