Personal Learning Environment – a Conceptual Study

Behnam Taraghi, Martin Ebner, Gerald Till, Herbert Mühlburger
2010 International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET)  
The influence of digital technologies as well as the World Wide Web on education rises dramatically. In former years Learning Management Systems (LMS) were introduced on educational institutes to address the needs both their institutions and their lecturers. Nowadays a shift from an institution-centered approach to a learner-centered one becomes necessary to allow individuality through the learning process and to think about learning strategies in general. In this paper a first approach of a
more » ... sonal Learning Environment (PLE) is described. The technological concept is pointed out as well as a study about the graphical user-interface done at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz). It can be concluded that PLEs are the next generation environments, which help to improve the learning and teaching behavior. Index Terms-e-learning, personal learning environment, widget, PLE I.
doi:10.3991/ijet.v5s1.1195 fatcat:2ekfwp3wdnfsva2boczrgdngei