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  • Posted by aiya
  • September 18, 2008

I attended a forum last week at USC in which Niall Sclater presented on Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) and the Future of Learning Management Systems. He made a point that I think has been missing from many discussions on PLEs - his laptop is his PLE. That’s where he creates, organizes, and connects to all [...]

Overcoming lame

  • Posted by aiya
  • June 23, 2008

The past few days I’ve been poking around social networks. Wikipedia lists 124 major social networking sites. I belong to five of them:

LinkedIn (where I connect with colleagues)
MySpace (where I find old classmates)
Twitter (where I read and post minutia…and you can follow me)
Geni (where I try to get my family to use the Internet [...]

Convergence

  • Posted by aiya
  • June 13, 2008

The more I read about personal learning spaces, the latest information architecture, social networking, and education, the more it seems that these fields are converging around the same set of concepts: personalization, customization, self-expression, affirmation, socialization, and navigation.
LearnHub is a great example of how these concepts can be combined for learning. Featured in TechCrunch yesterday, LearnHub [...]