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Beyond the Personal Learning Environment: Attachment and Control in the Classroom of the Future
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Johnson, Mark William; Sherlock, David – Interactive Learning Environments, 2014
The Personal Learning Environment (PLE) has been presented in a number of guises over a period of 10 years as an intervention which seeks the reorganisation of educational technology through shifting the "locus of control" of technology towards the learner. In the intervening period to the present, a number of initiatives have attempted…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Intervention, Educational Technology, Locus of Control
The Personal Learning Environment and the Human Condition: From Theory to Teaching Practice
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Johnson, Mark; Liber, Oleg – Interactive Learning Environments, 2008
We present the Personal Learning Environment (PLE) as a practical intervention concerning the organization of technology in education. We explain this by proposing a cybernetic model of the "Personal Learner" using Beer's Viable System Model (VSM). Using the VSM, we identify different regulatory mechanisms that maintain viability for learners, and…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Self Efficacy, Academic Achievement, Cybernetics