Personal Learning Environments: Challenging the Dominant Design of Educational Systems

Current systems used in education follow a consistent design pattern, one that is not supportive of lifelong learning or personalization, is asymmetric in terms of user capability, and which is disconnected from the global ecology of Internet services. In this paper we propose an alternative design pattern for educational systems that emphasizes symmetric connections with a range of services both in formal and informal learning, work, and leisure, and identify strategies for implementation and experimentation.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: ECTEL
• Authors: Scott Wilson, Oleg Liber, Mark Johnson, Phillip Beauvoir, Paul Sharples, Colin D. Milligan
• Keywords: Alternative Design Pattern, Consistent Design Pattern, Design Pattern, ECTEL 2006, Machine Learning