The document discusses mobile personal learning environments (PLMEs) and how they can support contextual learning in the workplace. PLMEs allow learners to set their own learning goals, manage content and the learning process, and communicate with others. They integrate learning and knowledge development into work processes by linking learning to real-world contexts and enabling collaborative knowledge construction. The goal is to move from expert-developed knowledge to knowledge negotiated by learners in real time through social learning processes supported by PLMEs.
7. moving from expert developed and
sanctioned knowledge to collaborative
forms of knowledge construction
8. “Social learning is the practice of working in groups,
not only to explore an established canon but also to
negotiate what qualifies as knowledge.”
9. In this model “curriculum is not driven by predefined
inputs from experts; it is constructed and negotiated in
real time by the contributions of those engaged in the
learning process. This community acts as the curriculum,
spontaneously shaping, constructing, and reconstructing
itself and the subject of its learning….”
18. PLMEs allow learners to set their own learning goals
manage their learning, managing both content and process and
communicate with others in the process of learning
32. Overcoming contradictions
Classroom learning versus ‘real life’ informal or work based learning
Academic knowledge as opposed to work process knowledge
Individual learning versus social learning
Educational technology versus social software
Decontextualised knowledge acquisition versus context knowledge
development