8/4/2019 Poster for Ple2011

1/1Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management

Designing a PLE-based learning environmentin the Amadeus secondary school

Ebrahim Rahimi

ntact: Ebrahim Rahimi

Jaffalaan 5, 2628BX, Delft

PLE approaches to learning

Tel:+31 15 27 82191 Email: e.rahimi@tudelft.nl

How to integrate the PLE concept with formal education of a school?

Who am I?

Self Image

1-How tostay

healthy?Health and

welfare

2-What doI act

normal?

Socialization

3-What I findimportant inrelationships

?

4-How do Ispend my

time?

Timemanagement

5-Whichway I go

on?

careerorientation

6-How do Iforesee

opportunities?

Labor & money

7-How do Icontribute?

Citizenship

8-What is myecologicalfootprint?

Sustainability

9-What canI do?

Design

10-How do I useICT to

communicate?

Media

11-Whatdo I like?

Flavordevelopment

12-How dowe livewell?

Ethics

Yourself

Family

Friends

Free Time

School

Work

Society

Nature

Technology

ICT

Art

Philosophy

Amadeus approaches to learning

Networkedand Social

Lerner Centric

Multi context

Self directed

Informal andLife Long

Demand Pull

-Course Agenda

-Newsletter

-Threaded Discussion

-Assignments

-Calendar

-Content and Useful

resources

-Outside experts info

- Links to students' PLEs

-Personal Web Page(iGoogle,

symballo, NetVibes)

-PEERS(Teacher,friend,expert,family)

-MEDIA(Blog,Wiki ,)

-TOOLS(Social networks, Widgets,)

Course

blog

Class Context

Outside Contexts and Experts

-Personal Web Page(iGoogle, symballo,

NetVibes)

-PEERS(Teacher,friend,expert,family)

-MEDIA(Blog,Wiki ,)

-TOOLS(Social networks, Widgets,)

-Personal Web Page(iGoogle, symballo,

NetVibes)

-PEERS(Teacher,friend,expert,family)

-MEDIA(Blog,Wiki ,)

-TOOLS(Social networks, Widgets,)

Student2-PLE

-Personal Web Page(iGoogle, symballo,

NetVibes)

-PEERS(Teacher,friend,expert,family)

-MEDIA(Blog,Wiki ,)

-TOOLS(Social networks, Widgets,)

Student4-PLE

Student1-PLE Student3-PLE

Suggested PLE-based Model

Steps to implement suggested Model

Step 1: Instructionaldesign

Step 2: Preparation Step 3: Using PLEs for carryingout daily learning process

Step 4:datagathering and

Synthesizing

Procedure:1-Defining a set ofteaching and learningtasks, activities, games,assessment methods,and assignments thatstimulate students touse technology in theirlearning process andapply technologycapabilities tocommunicate, share,create, and organizeinformation.

2- Designing acooperation model.

3-Designing a tools-selecting framework andselecting a set of webtools that can supportthe defined tasks in part1.

Responsible: teachers,research team, and agroup of students.

Procedure:1-Introducing andteaching the selectedweb tools to teachers.

2-Introdcing samePLE experiences toteachers andstudents.

3- Introducing theproject to studentsand explainexpectations ofstudents.

4-Technology-usingEtiquette willexplained forstudents and signedby each student. (Ifthere is not such adocument, itsnecessary to define itby school managers.)

Procedure:1-Teacher defines a promoting-technology daily agenda and postsit on course blog. This agendaincludes guidance, learningactivities, useful links, andassignments that students mustdo them.

2- Each student by using theintroduced web tools and basedon the daily agenda creates hisPLE, practices digital literacy,doing assignments, searches theweb for related information,creates report, communicate withother students, share his findings,make contact to outside experts,receive and send feedbacks, helpsother students to create theirsPLE, validates gatheredinformation, and collects andorganizes information.

3- Teacher monitors student

activities, gives them feedback,evaluate theirs PLEs, encouragethem to communicate, share, andorganize information, helps themto find outside experts.

To evaluate theproject andsynthesize itsresult, the followingmethods will beused to gatherinformation:

Survey: beforeand after eachphase of project.

Directobservation ofstudentsactivities byresearcher.

Using tools likeGoogle analytics.

Interviewswithteachers andstudents.

Using currentevaluation toolsof school.

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Research Challenges5

How to integrate technology with educational processes?

How to promote teachers and students to use technology in classroom activities?

How to stimulate students to collaborate with each other and teachers by usingtechnology?

What is the appropriate cooperation model to support PLE-base learning?

How the openness nature of PLE can adapts to top-down and control-oriented

approaches of school?

How to evaluate the PLE-based model outcomes?