This document discusses the concept of personal learning environments and networks. It notes that teaching has changed and learning now occurs outside of traditional structures. Personal learning involves having skills for lifelong learning, collaboration in teams regardless of location, social networking, and having a presence both online and offline. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are mentioned as an example of online learning opportunities. The document also provides an example of how Second Life was used to simulate border crossings for customs and immigration students, improving their training and test scores.

1. Does it
blend?
by Mervi Jansson
Innovation manager
InnoOmnia
Part-time entrepreneur
ePiks Oy
mervi.jansson@omnia.fi
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2. Is there
more to
it than
meets
the
eye?

3. Content,
communities, Zzzz
collaboration,
complexity,...
chaos?
Please click if
you are
learning…

4. Teaching ain’t what it used to be!

5. My PLE

6. And it travels light!
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7. We are not experiencing information
overload, we are experiencing
filter failure. Clay Shirky

8. Outside of your comfort zone?

9. First things first. Let go of your
futile urge to control!

10. There is a lot of learning going on
out there!

11. Once you get the hang of it,
there is no going back!

12. It’s about having skills for
lifelong learning, being able to
work in teams regardless of
self-expression,
location,
socialising in networks,
being an active citizen,…
…having a presence
in the world, real and
virtual, today and
tomorrow.

13. You can cater to the world or pick a niche.

14. MOOCs anyone?
• MOOC = Massive Open Online Course.
• Case PLENK2010 personal learning environments,
networks and knowledge.
• Sponsored and organized by the Technology Enhanced
Knowledge Research Institute (TEKRI) at Athabasca
University.
• 1748 participants.
• Course delivery: course wiki, daily newsletter, readings
and resources, moodle discussion forum, Twitter
hashtag, Facebook group, Elluminate sessions and
numerous blogs .

15. PLENK2010 participants

16. Loyalist College in Second Life
• Customs and Immigration students at Loyalist
College used to spend three weeks tailing
professional border guards. After 911 this was
no longer possible.
• Training suffered until Loyalist College catalyzed
a virtual border crossing simulation in Second
Life.
• This led to significantly improved grades,taking
scores from a 56% success in 2007, to 95% at
the end of 2008 after the simulation was
instituted.

17. So what’s
your next
step?

18. Thanks