"We often talk about games, simulations and other events in learning, but these technologies support only episodic learning. Equally important are those technologies that provide a context for these learning episodes, an environment where students interact and converse among themselves. This paper describes experimentation in the development of distributed online courses and in software - particularly, the personal learning environment - that support the formation of connections between the far-flung pieces of such courses."
EctoLearning is a social, collaborative, online learning environment that directly addresses the needs of the modern learning environment by making the new communication skills and competencies for content creation and sharing central to the classroom experience.
Die Fachtagung "Personal Learning Environments in der Schule" beschäftigt sich mit allen Arten von medialen Werkzeuge, mit denen Lernende ihren Lernprozess verstärkt selbst gestalten können. Es gibt eine Video-Einführung in das Tagungsthema von Beat Döbeli.
Imagine if every twelve weeks Facebook: * shut down all the groups you belonged to, * deleted all your forum posts, * removed all the photos, videos, and other files you had shared, and * forgot who your friends were.
S. Hausmann, and K. Götzelt. Tagungsband der Multikonferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik (MKWI), page 1461--1472. Göttingen, Universitätsverlag Göttingen, (February 2010)