TU Graz
Taraghi, B., Ebner, M., Till, G., & Mühlburger, H. (2010). Personal Learning Environment – a Conceptual Study. International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), 5(S1), 25-30. doi:10.3991/ijet.v5s1.1195
Behnam Taraghi, Martin Ebner, Sandra Schaffert, “Personal Learning Environments for Higher Education: A Mashup Based Widget Concept”, in Wild, F., Mödritscher, F., & Sigurdarson, S. (2009). MUPPLE09 Mashup Personal Learning Environments. (G. Magoulas, Ed.)MashUp Personal Learning Environments MUPPLE09, 1(1), 47-58. IGI Global, Idea Group Publishing. Retrieved from http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-506
Ebner, M., Schön, S., Taraghi, B., Drachsler, H., & Tsang, P. (2011). First Steps towards an Integrated Personal Learning Environment at the University Level. In R. Kwan, C. McNaught, P. Tsang, F. L. Wang, & K. C. Li (Eds.), Enhancing Learning Through Technology Education Unplugged Mobile Technologies and Web 20 (Vol. 177, pp. 22-36). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-22383-9_3
The widget engine used in the TU Graz PLE is an extension of the widget engine that was first implemented within the scope of the IST Palette project for the Palette web portal.
The Project LearnLand
LearnLand is in operation since October 2006 at Graz University of Technology and is accessible to every students and teachers university wide (a screenshot of the start page can be seen in figure 1). LearnLand is based on the open source software ELGG (http://elgg.org – last visited: 22.12.2006) and is described by the developers as “open source software platform designed to allow people to easily connect and share resources”. ELGG is comparable with a blogosphere for example as blogger.com, however, it provides more possibilities with have a strong focus on learning and learning in communities.
Ebner, M., & Holzinger, A. (2007). Web 2.0 technology: future interfaces for technology enhanced learning? Universal Access in Human-Computer, 559-568. Retrieved from http://www.springerlink.com/index/hrp354g32831g2qx.pdf
A first prototype for a university wide PLE is implemented at the Graz University of Technology
University of Southampton
Southampton Learning Environment
White, S. (2010). Making it rich and personal : meeting institutional challenges from next generation learning environments. Proceedings of the The PLE Conference 2010.
White, S., & Davis, H. C. (2011). Rich and personal revisited : translating ambitions for an institutional personal learning environment into a reality. Proceedings of the The PLE Conference 2011.
HOU2LEARN
Personal Learning Environment, called HOU2LEARN, in the Hellenic Open University (HOU) Soumplis, A., Chatzidaki, E., Koulocheri, E., & Xenos, M. (2011). Implementing an Open Personal Learning Environment. 2011 15th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics, 345-349. Ieee. doi:10.1109/PCI.2011.2
MeMeTEKA
This project was implemented by Casquero et al.(2008)in Google Apps.
On summer 2008, a project entitled MeMeTEKA was initiated in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of the Basque Country, http://www.memeteka.net
Oskar Casquero, Javier Portillo, Ramón Ovelar, Jesús Romo, Manuel Benito, (2008), “iGoogle and gadgets as a platform for integrating institutional and external services”, in MUPPLE08 MashUp Personal Learning Environments. (2008).MashUp Personal Learning Environments MUPPLE08.
Casquero, O., Portillo, J., Ovelar, R., Benito, M., and Romo, J.: “iPLE Network: an integrated eLearning 2.0 architecture from University’s perspective,” Interactive Learning Environments, 18, 3 (2010), 293-308.
SAPO Campus
Sapo Campus – a social media platform launched at University of Aveiro (UA)
Santos, C., Pedro, L., & Ramos, F. (2011). Sapo Campus: what users really think about an institutionally supported PLE. Proceedings of the The PLE Conference 2011.
SocialLearn
Buckingham Shum, S., Ferguson, R.: Towards a social learning space for open educational resources. Presented at the OpenED2010: Seventh Annual Open Education Conference, 2-4 Nov 2010 , Barcelona, Spain (2010).
Ullmann, T. D., Ferguson, R., & Shum, S. B. (2011). Designing an Online Mentoring System for Self- Awareness and Reflection on Lifelong Learning Skills. Proceedings of the The PLE Conference 2011, 34-42.
OpenLearn
Open Learn Project: Online Educational Resources (http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/).
McAndrew, P. (2010). Defining openness: updating the concept of “open” for a connected world. Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2010(02), 1-13. Retrieved from http://jime.open.ac.uk/article/2010-10/
Charles Sturt Univ.
CSU adopted PebblePad as university-wide personal learning / ePortfolio platform
Hunter, C., & Stewart, S. (2010). Embracing personal learning and ePortfolios @ CSU : A university-wide approach. Ascilite 2010, 450-453.
eCopSoft (University of Paderborn, Germany)
Reinhardt, W. (2010). Personal dashboards for individual learning and project awareness in social software engineering. Proceedings of the The PLE Conference 2010.
ROLE test-beds
OU Test-bed (Open Educational Resources (OER) repository OpenLearn offered by the Open University (OU), UK.)
Mikroyannidis, A. (2011). Supporting self-regulated learning within a personal learning environment: the OpenLearn case study. 2011 IEEE 11th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, 607-608. Ieee. Retrieved from http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/conferencedetails/index.html?Conf_ID=17949
Festo Test-bed (Company)
Govaerts, S., Verbert, K., Dahrendorf, D., Ullrich, C., Schmidt, M., Werkle, M., Chatterjee, A., et al. (2011). Towards Responsive Open Learning Environments : The ROLE Interoperability Framework. In C. Kloos, D. Gillet, R. Crespo García, F. Wild, & M. Wolpers (Eds.), European Conference on Techology Enhanced Learning (Vol. 6964, pp. 125-138). Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-23985-4_11
The Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) School of Continuing Education (SOCE) terst-bed
Ullrich, C., Shen, R., & Gillet, D. (2010). Not Yet Ready for Everyone : An Experience Report about a Personal Learning Environment. ICWL 2010, LNCS 6483, 269-278.
British Institute of Learning and Development (BILD)
Center for Learning and Knowledge Management and Department of Information Management in Mechanical Engineering” (ZLW/IMA) at RWTH Aachen University.
University of Geneva
University of Fribourg
EPFL
Learning Lab of the University of Uppsala
KU Leuven
Tongji University (Shanghai, China)
University of Vienna.
PLE Implementations at German Universities
“MyPaed” at Technical University of Darmstadt (www.mypaed.tu-darmstadt.de)
“TUgether” at Technical University of Braunschweig. (tugether.tu-braunschweig.de)
Kahnwald, N., Dresden, T. U., Albrecht, S., & Herbst, S. (2010). Informal learning in formal contexts ? An empirical assessment of the potential role of PLEs in higher education. Proceedings of the The PLE Conference 2010, (Prensky).
UONL – Open university Netherland
myOUNL – Personal learning and working environment (PLWE) project
Hermans, H., & Verjans, S. (2009). Developing a sustainable, student centred VLE: the OUNL case. 23rd ICDE World Conference on Open Learning and Distance Education including the 2009 EADTU Annual Conference M2009 June 710 2009, 1-9. Retrieved from http://dspace.ou.nl/handle/1820/1894
Open University of Catalonia
- The Campus project, a multi-stakeholder initiative, changed our virtual campus from a closed legacy system into a service-oriented architecture that now can interact or incorporate most services and applications existing around, from modules from other LMSs (e.g. a Moodle classroom) to the most common web 2.0 applications (e.g. a WordPress blog). These services can be selected (with the required profile permissions) and set up into a classroom at will. New services and apps take from one to two semesters to be added to the current pool of options, depending on complexity.
- The MyUOC project provided each and every university member with an “i-Homepage” inside the Campus, the flavour of Netvibes or iGoogle thus allowing for a brand new path towards personalization and external information self-integration (i.e. DIY integration of external information, not top-down led).
- Third, the nanoblogging project (being implemented in the next two semesters in different phases) will bring StatusNet to the classroom in a first phase. So long, no big news: there is, of course, technical stuff to be done, but it is “only” a matter of installing and wiring tools and classrooms. I’m not trivializing this part, but “conceptually”, there’s no big difference with setting up the first blog. Hopefully, though, in a second and third phase, the idea is to bring the nanoblogging timeline to the MyUOC i-homepage and to make possible an interaction with Twitter.
Peña-lópez, I. (2010). Personal Learning Environments : blurring the edges of formal and informal learning. Education, 1-28. Retrieved from http://ictlogy.net/articles/20101105_ismael_pena-lopez_-_personal_learning_environments_blurring_edges_formal_informal_learning.pdf
University of the Basque Country (Faculty of Medicine and Odontology (FMO))
Casquero, O., Portillo, J., Ovelar, R., Benito, M., & Romo, J. (2010). iPLE Network: an integrated eLearning 2.0 architecture from a university’s perspective. (A. Berlanga, P. Sloep, & F. García Peñalvo, Eds.)Interactive Learning Environments, 18(3), 293-308. Routledge. doi:10.1080/10494820.2010.500553
University of Balearic Islands
Marín, V., & Benito, B. de. (2011). A design of a postgraduate course on Google Apps based on an Institutional Personal Learning Environment (iPLE). Proceedings of the The PLE Conference 2011, 1-5. Retrieved from http://journal.webscience.org/652/
University of Malaya
Hussain, R. M. R., Zher, N. H., & Ismail, M. (2011). Modeling Personalized Learning Environment and Students Engagement (PLEaSE). Proceedings of the The PLE Conference 2011.
University of Aveiro
Aresta, M., Pedro, L., Moreira, A., & Santos, C. (2011). Learning beyond the curriculum: PLE and the development of soft-skills. Proceedings of the The PLE Conference 2011, 1-6.
RWTH Aachen University (bir derslik case)
Santos Odriozola, J. L., Verbert, K., Govaerts, S., & Duval, E. (2011). Visualizing PLE Usage. Proceedings of EFEPLE11 1st Workshop on Exploring the Fitness and Evolvability of Personal Learning Environments (pp. 34-38). CEUR workshop proceedings. Retrieved from https://lirias.kuleuven.be/handle/123456789/322006
University of Manchester’s School of Computer Science, mPLE
van Harmelen, M. (2008). Design trajectories: four experiments in PLE implementation. Interactive Learning Environments, 16(1), 35-46. Routledge. doi:10.1080/10494820701772686
University of the Philippines Diliman
Asuncion, J. L. R., Moscatel, M. L., & Feria, R. P. (2010). Design and Implementation of a Cloud-based Personal Learning Environment. Proceedings of the The PLE Conference 2010.
The University of Auckland, New Zealand
White, D. C. (2010). Design and Implementation of a Personal Knowledge Integrator Federated with Personal Knowledge Environments. Proceedings of the The PLE Conference 2010.
Brigham Young University (OLN implementation)
Mott, J. (2010). Envisioning the Post-LMS Era : The Open Learning Network The PLE and Personal Learning Networks. EDUCAUSE Quarterly Magazine, 33(1), 1-8. Retrieved from http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Quarterly/EDUCAUSEQuarterlyMagazineVolum/EnvisioningthePostLMSEraTheOpe/199389
University of Bolton
Wilson S., Liber O., Johnson M., Milligan C., Beauvoir P., Sharples P. (2006), Personal Learning Environments Reference Model Project, URL: http://www.cetis.ac.uk/ members/ple (accessed on 9th February, 2007).
Mehmet Emin Mutlu 