Nada Dabbagh
George Mason University

Summary

Personal Learning Environments, or PLEs, enable the creation of personal and social learning spaces to support learner-centered and personalized learning experiences empowering students to direct their own learning and develop self-regulated learning skills. They do so because they are built bottom-up, by the student, starting with personal goals, information management, and individual knowledge construction, and progressing to socially mediated knowledge and networked learning. A PLE can be entirely controlled and adapted by a student based on his or her formal and informal learning needs, however not all students possess the knowledge management and self-regulatory skills to effectively create and customize a PLE to provide an engaging learning experience. My talk will address this critical issue focusing on the use of social media as an educational platform for scaffolding the strategic design of PLEs.

Event Type: Sessions
Category: Panel
Theme: Engage Series hosted by Cengage Learning