Personal Learning Environment – A Conceptual Study

Authors

  • Behnam Taraghi
  • Martin Ebner
  • Gerald Till
  • Herbert Mühlburger

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v5iSI1.1195

Keywords:

e-learning, personal learning environment, widget, PLE

Abstract


The influence of digital technologies as well as the World Wide Web on education rises dramatically. In former years Learning Management Systems (LMS) were introduced on educational institutes to address the needs both their institutions and their lecturers. Nowadays a shift from an institution-centered approach to a learner-centered one becomes necessary to allow individuality through the learning process and to think about learning strategies in general. In this paper a first approach of a Personal Learning Environment (PLE) is described. The technological concept is pointed out as well as a study about the graphical user-interface done at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz). It can be concluded that PLEs are the next generation environments, which help to improve the learning and teaching behavior

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Published

2010-01-20

How to Cite

Taraghi, B., Ebner, M., Till, G., & Mühlburger, H. (2010). Personal Learning Environment – A Conceptual Study. International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), 5(SI1), pp. 25–30. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v5iSI1.1195