1. BY:NOMHLE DUMA

3.  PLE’sare not another substantiation of
educational technology but a new
approach to learning

4.  PLE are based on idea that learning will
take place in different contexts and
situations and will not be provided by a
single learning provider

5.  The idea of a personal learning
environment recognizes that learning is
continuing and seeks to provide tools to
support that learning using whichever tools
that the learners choose

6.  PLE recognises the role of an individual in
organising their own learning
 PLE’s can help in the recognition of
informal learning.
 It offers a portal through which learners
can explore and create according to their
own interests and directions and
interacting at all times with their friends
and communities.

8.  The PLE will challenge the existing
education systems and institutions.
 Encourage and support the development
of communities and of practice and
engagement in those communities

9.  The challenge is not the development of
technology which poses such a challenge,
but the changing ways people are using
technologies to communicate, to learn and
the accompanying social effects of such
use

10.  Learning is now seen as intermittent, with
individuals spending occasional periods of
formal education and training throughout their
working life.
 PLEs are based on the idea that learning will
take place in different contexts and situations
and will not be provided by a single learning
provider the idea of a Personal Learning
Environment recognises that learning is
continuing and seeks to provide tools to
support that learning.

11. e Learning The explosive growth of
technology, internet and the world wide web
is transforming teaching and learning. This
is affecting most people at all levels of
learning and education.