Personal Learning Environments: What They Are And How To Implement Them

From Robin Good:

The concept of �personal learning environment� represents the most recent evolutionary step in a learner-centered approach to education.
“A PLE may be composed of one or more subsystems: As such it may be a desktop application, or composed of one or more web-based services.”
Personal Learning Environments integrate both formal and informal learning approaches into a single experience.
The PLE concept can trace its origins to early systems such as Colloquia (the first peer-to-peer learning system) and in more recent products such as the Elgg system. This alternative approach has been developed in parallel to that of Learning Management Systems, which unlike the PLE take an institution-centric (or course-centric) view of learning.
The academic paper I am introducing today has been written by Ron Lubensky, a postgraduate researcher at the University of Sydney who is focusing on new learning systems. The article attempts to provide an in-depth definition of a �personal learning environment�, as well as speculating personal learning environments possible developments and likely future.