LMS vs PLE Although I found the title of this blog a bit confusing - to me it seems to imply that one may be better than the other - I believe that the PLE and the LMS can not be mutually exclusive because we simply need both of them. If I think about most students' experiences, through the academic world, they have been exposed to LMS from a young age; the information was centralized, the expectations and goals were clearly defined, and for the most part knowledge was unidirectional with a beginning time and an end time. Basically they had to adapt to the system. On the other hand, with the proliferation of technology, PLEs - such as Google, Twitter, Facebook, My Space, YouTube, SlideShare, Google,...etc - are now very much accessible to users, and the beauty is that users do not have to comply to any system, they can select their own learning systems/topics/time and develop their own community, and network of knowledge sharing. In essence PLEs are flexible and completely "user-centric". In conclusion, I believe that ideally incorporating some level of PLE into the LMS would be very appealing and beneficial to today's end users. |
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8 months ago
Hi Ladane,
ReplyDeleteI've been puzzling it out in my head and I think you're right. I also think it's necessary to have both learning structures set up. If we're going to address the advantages of an open-ended learning environment, than we also need to tend to the needs of students that may learn more effectively within a more conventionally structured setting. Especially when we consider english language learners and special education students among other student categories, we have to accept that some learning necessitates structure.
Duboulay,
ReplyDeleteYou raise an interesting point. Why not see the benefit of incorporating both LMS and PLE in such a way that educators gives some structure while at the same time still providing freedom for the students.
Wiregrl7 was spot on to acknowledge the need to differentiate the learning so that everyone has the opportunity to benefit from the combined learning system.