Abstract
Personal Learning Environment is a reference to future learning. In this paper we present a multi-level analysis of the options and requirements in the universe of PLE, analyzing the content management system as the main tool of the learning environment. There are two principal models: distributed applications and mashups. Both have advantages and disadvantages, and they also share a big issue: lack of inter-application communication. We are trying to find a solution to this problem presenting an architecture for distributed applications model, so that transparency to the uses will be maintained.
Highlights
During the last decade, technologies have been introduced in education mainly to extend the reach of the classroom
Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) were created as a concept designed to meet the needs of Self-Regulated Learning (SRL), initially informal and non institutional
The amount of information available on the Internet and the evolution of Web 2.0 has enabled the birth of these environments in which the student self-organize his/her learning and choose from the applications to use to his/her learning goals, all this while working in a social and collaborative way with others, whether students, teachers, enthusiast of a subject, etc
Summary
Technologies have been introduced in education mainly to extend the reach of the classroom. The amount of information available on the Internet and the evolution of Web 2.0 has enabled the birth of these environments in which the student self-organize his/her learning and choose from the applications to use to his/her learning goals, all this while working in a social and collaborative way with others, whether students, teachers, enthusiast of a subject, etc. The PLE built as a set of distributed applications or as a mashup of web applications are the most successful configurations This choice is a matter of personal preference, and it is the learner who has to decide which model suits his/her way of working best. It seems more practical to choose the best already developed applications and connect them, or to offer an information transfer method or standard which should be compatible with all tools.
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