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This time it's personal

Learning with 'e's

If you are a student you may be sat in the same classroom or lecture hall as many other students, and listening to the same content, but you interpret it differently to everyone else. These tools, services and technologies become a part of your personal learning environment or PLE. The PLE is an approach rather than a technology.

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GlobalEdCon 2013 - Day Three Schedule

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Today is day three of the 2013 Global Education Conference. To receive the daily conference schedule, be sure to join the Global Education Conference network. Our free conference runs all week and is open to anyone to attend--spread the word with Twitter hashtag # globaled13. General conference information is posted here.

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GlobalEdCon 2013 Day Four + Helping the New Grassroots Projects

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Today is day four of the 2013 Global Education Conference. During the conference opening sessions we brainstormed as set of grassroots global education projects that we could bring to our personal learning networks to try to get started. To receive the daily conference schedule, be sure to join the Global Education Conference network.

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OZeLive Starts Today - "Ed Tech Down Under"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

If you''re in the Americas, the inaugural (and free) OZeLive virtual conference starts today, Friday, at 4pm Eastern. If you''re in Australia, New Zealand, or the South Pacific, the conference starts tomorrow, Saturday, at 8am Australia Eastern Time. Here are all the conference sessions, hour by hour, in US Eastern Standard Time.

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PLEs, MOOCs and connectivism

Learning with 'e's

Downes was speaking at the ELI 4th International Conference on e-Learning and Distance Education held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Rows of seats still persist in the classrooms of many schools, and direct instruction still holds sway. ELI_2015 connectivism education learning MOOC PLE Stephen Downes Technology' Unported License.

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Ugh. Classic Politics Now Extends to Social Networking in Education.

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

I run what is arguably the largest social network for educators, Classroom 2.0 There is a reason that so many acronyms in this arena start with P for "personal:" PLN (Personal Learning Network), (PLC) Personal Learning Communities, and PLE (Personal Learning Environments). with 54,000 members.

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#LearningIs personal

Learning with 'e's

There is also a regular international conference dedicated to personalised learning environments. Students are encouraged to be more proactive in their learning, and are allowed to choose/bring their own devices into the classroom. But how much of this work has actually been put into practice on a grand scale?