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.
Journal of the Research Center for Educational Technology 4 (2008) This paper briefly summarizes the implementation of a university-wide electronic portfolio requirement. We begin with a systemic view of the ePortfolio Program and narrow our focus to a view of ePortfolio integration into two different classes. The rationale behind the Clemson University ePortfolio Program is to build a mechanism through which core competencies are demonstrated and evaluated. The target classes are a general education English class focusing on 20th and 21st century literature and a professional development seminar in computer science. Both classes allow students to select their topics and present their work to the class using a variety of media types, and both include a form of peer evaluation. These classes confirm that when students’ choice is built into the assignments we are pleasantly surprised by the outcomes.
(1) the role of the learner as active, self-directed creators of content; (2) personalisation with the support and data of community members; (3) learning content as an infinite “bazaar”; (4) the big role of social involvement; (5) the ownership of le
There are different sets of tools involved and it may be better to develop environments which allow flexible access to different tool sets for different purposes.
Why do we need a PLE when we already have the Internet? The Internet is my PLE, ePortfolio, VLE what ever. Thanks to blogger, bloglines, flickr, delicious, wikispaces, ourmedia, creative commons, and what ever comes next in this new Internet age, I have a
Using Mind Manager flow charting software to create a diagram detailing how information flows through the social networking and media sites - mapping a PLE.
J. Adell, und L. Castañeda. Claves para la investigación en innovación y calidad educativas, la integración de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación y la interculturalidad en las aulas Strumenti di ricerca per l'innovazione e la qualità in ambito educativo, le tecnologie dell'informazione e della comunicazione e l'interculturalità nella scuola, (2010)
T. Nelkner. Best Practices for the Knowledge Society. Knowledge, Learning, Development and Technology for All, Volume 49 von Communications in Computer and Information Science, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, (2009)
S. Wilson, O. Liber, D. Griffiths, und M. Johnson. Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2007, Seite 1386--1395. Vancouver, Canada, AACE, (Juni 2007)
M. Kerres, N. Ojstersek, A. Preussler, und J. Stratmann. E-Learning: Eine Zwischenbilanz Kritischer Rückblick als Basis eines Aufbruchs, Waxmann, Münster, New York, München, Berlin, (2009)