The document discusses learning in the knowledge society. It describes how students now have new profiles and utilize diverse media simultaneously. It discusses formal, informal, non-formal, and natural learning. It also discusses virtual learning environments (VLEs) and personal learning environments (PLEs), noting that PLEs allow for independent, social, and connected learning according to students' own needs. PLEs also allow students to collect and share information from varied sources to enrich their learning. The conclusion is that learning starts formally in classrooms but also continues informally online through wider networks.
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Learning in Knowledge Society: the different roles of VLEs and PLEs
1. Ana Loureiro | Inês Messias | Maria Barbas
School of Education - Polytechnic Institute of Santarém, Portugal
5th WSKS - World Summit on the Knowledge Society
Rome, Italy
20-22 June 2012
2. [key words]
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3. [Learning in knowledge society]
New Traditional
utilize simultaneously
Students teaching
diverse types of media
Profile uninteresting
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4. [Learning in knowledge society]
Traditional
teaching
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5. [Learning in knowledge society]
Where How What
Information to select
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6. [Learning in knowledge society]
Social
Networks
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7. [Forms of learning]
Formal Learning Informal Learning
Has a curriculum | Is Never organized | No
Intentional | Confers objectives | Not intentional |
formal recognition Daily activities |Experience
Non Formal Learning Natural Learning
May or may not be
Is intentional |Semi-organized |
intentional | No time or
May confer formal recognition |
place |autonomous |
Flexible | Operational
Depends on Socialization
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8. [what are VLEs]
- Facilitate students - Static appearence
access to teachers’
information
- Don’t allow
personalization
- Allow contact with
peers
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9. [what VLEs should encourage]
Create
knowledge
Reflection
on relevant
content
Use of meta-
cognitive
skills
“Should be designed to adress learners’ diversity in terms of
learning styles, prior knowledge, culture and self-regulation
skills”
Vovides et al, 2007
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10. [PLE]
Set of web 2.0 tools and services, gathered by the user, in a single webpage.
Graphically based.
PLEs
agregate
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11. [PLEs Allow]
PLEs
Allow
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12. [PLEs Allow]
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13. [VLE & PLE benefits for e-learning contexts]
Allows [described as the learning
Allows sharing independent theory for the digital age]
learning
with a broader
(acording to
Focused on the community
our own needs)
self
Allows more
conectivity &
socialization
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14. [VLE & PLE benefits for e-learning contexts]
The connections within a Collecting
information
Varied sources
personalized environment shape Sharing
information
the knowledge one creates
enriching the learners
Developing
personal data collection
information
the evolution of
active and
the students’
reactive user
learning profile
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15. [Conclusions]
Students engage with a wider network to
enhance their own learning. In terms of
learning, we can say it starts in the formality of
a classroom and follows in the informality of
the Web.
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