Personal Learning Environments

September 5, 2007 by sean.

Teemu Arina has a link on his blog to an article he wrote for his company blog on “Horizontal technologies for learning.” The following definitional distinction between LMS and PLE [Personal Learning Environments: Check out Graham Attwell’s position paper] is huge. It is a key insight into why education has barely moved into the connected age and why social technologies are, as he says, “a way forward.” [via smartmobs]

The web is full of teachers, you just need the tools to reach them. I call that parasitic learning [ensouraging] trojan horses that will bypass institutional systems by helping students to help each other in their personal learning.

Robin Good recently posted a series of fascinating short film clips on YouTube of interviews with Finnish Teemu Arina about the Future of Learning.

Teemu’s blog on networked learning, knowledge and collaboration is also worth a look.

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