1. EmpoweringPersonal LearningEnvironments
Zaid Ali Alsagoff
http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/

2. Hi!
Learning can be FUN!
3. Contents
5 Future Trends
PLE
LMS Vs PLE
Essential PLE Tools
Challenges
Conclusion
4. 5
5 Future Trends
Future
Trends
We Cannot Ignore!
5. Social Media & Web 2.0
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Connect
Interact
Collaborate
Share
Learn
create
6. Facebook Stats (27/05/2011)
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16. Malaysia
Source: http://www.facebakers.com/countries-with-facebook/
7. Facebook Users in Malaysia?(11/05/2011)
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Facebook Users: + 10.85 Million
Penetration: 41.47 %
Source: http://www.socialbakers.com/facebook-statistics/saudi-arabia
8. Demographics Malaysia (11/05/2011)
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Male/Female User Ratio
User Age Distribution
Source: http://www.facebakers.com/countries-with-facebook/MY/
9. Social Media Revolution?
10. Openness in Education
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Open Educational Resources (OER)
Assessment
Online Facilitation
Credits
Teaching
Massive Open Online Courses
(MOOC)
Open Source Software
Accreditation
Open Textbooks
OER/OCW list:
http://tiny.cc/r6xb0
Open Courseware (OCW)
MOOC: http://tiny.cc/2eger
11. Examples
Creative Commons: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/
Khan Academy: http://www.khanacademy.org/
Academic Earth: http://academicearth.org/
YouTube EDU: http://www.youtube.com/edu
Einztein: http://www.einztein.com/
TEDTalks: http://www.ted.com/
12. Khan Academy
13. Wolfram Alpha
14. Quora
15. Social Curation
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Today there is a new wave of social bookmarking tools in the name of 'Social Curation', which are empowered with some really innovative collaborative sharing tools to make sense of the overloaded web by organizing discoveries and resources into mind-stimulating topics, stories, collections, etc..
Zaid Ali Alsagoff
Article: http://tiny.cc/5245h
16. http://www.delicious.com/zaidlearn/PLE
17. Scoop.it!
Create your topic-centric media by collecting gems among relevant streams.
Publish it to your favorite social media or to your blog.
18. OER Glue
19. Mobile Learning
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Source: http://tiny.cc/6wu04
20. Connectivism
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knowledge is distributed across a network of connections, and therefore that learning consists of the ability to construct and traverse those networks...
George Siemens &
Stephen Downes
More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connectivism
21. Personal Learning Environments
22. Personal Learning Environments (PLE)
Steve Wheeler, University of Plymouth, 2011
Source: http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com/2010/07/anatomy-of-ple.html
23. But, what about the LMS?
PLE
LMS
Rather than integrating different tools into a centralized system, the idea is to provide the learner with a myriad of tools and hand over control to her to select, combine and use the tools the way she deems fit.. - Mohamed Amine Chatti
Adapted from: http://tiny.cc/ozffg
24. Alternatives?
ELGG: http://www.elgg.org/Mahara: http://mahara.org/Schoology: http://www.schoology.com/
25. PLE
Where to Start?
Source: http://www.pamorama.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/artoflistening.jpg
26. Example of PLEs
A collection of PLEs: http://edtechpost.wikispaces.com/PLE+Diagrams
27. EssentialPLE Tools?
28. My Essential PLE Tools?
29. With RSS You Can Create Your Own Online Newspaper
30. Ways RSS is being used:
RSS
Newsfeeds
Blogs
Wikis
Podcasts
31. Google Reader
32. Twitter for Learning?
Dont just follow ENGAGE!
#edchat - Education##edutech - Educational Technology#web20chat - Web 2.0#DistEd Distance education and e-learning#innochat Innovation in education#Lrnchat Learning issues for educators#ellchat English Language Learners
http://twitter.com/zaidlearn
Article: http://tiny.cc/lp0b0
33. Looking for Learning Professionals?
Here: http://tiny.cc/llihj
34. Useful Twitter Tools
http://monitter.com/
http://paper.li/
http://twitpic.com/
http://www.tweetdeck.com/
http://www.polleverywhere.com/
More Twitter Tools: http://tiny.cc/jqaqa
35. Facebook?
Facebook is a social utility that helps people communicate more efficiently with their friends, families and coworkers.
36. Facebook for Learning?
Formal Learning (LMS)

Course Notes

37. Assignments 38. Quizzes 39. GradesSocial Learning (Facebook)
Informal
Easy-to-Use
Sharing
Communication
Collaboration
Communities
Mobile Learning
Always Connected!
Facebook Legalized for teaching & learning only!
40. Facebook Groups or Pages
Source: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/publicaffairs/webcomm/vu-resources/social-media-handbook/appendix-b/
Slidecast: http://tiny.cc/3p5ye
41. Blogging
is an amazing tool for
Lifelong Learning!
42. Blog is the perfect _______ tool!
Web
Tools
E-Portfolio
43. Integrating your PLE?

iGoogle: http://www.google.com/ig

44. Netvibes:http://www.netvibes.com/ 45. Pageflakes: http://www.pageflakes.com/