A Personal Learning Environment Framework to Enhance Communication Skills and Psychology

Abstract

Personal Learning Environments (PLE) are systems that help learners take control of and manage their own learning. This includes providing support for learners to set their own learning goals (with support of their teachers), manage their learning, both content and process communicate with others in the process of learning. The Personal Learning Environment is a system that allows connecting students, teachers, school managers, tutors, community by means of open and commercial ICT solutions inside and outside the school facilities, supporting lifelong learning, enabling students to control and define its own learning processes under the mentoring of the teacher. A personalised learning environment increases the students’ motivation and creates a learning situation where they can control their own learning at their own pace. It allows students to actively design their own learning strategies. PLE enables better contact between student/teacher, and the education is less teacher-centred. PLE and modern technology together create a customised learning environment that suits the development of the 21st century classroom. The technology of today makes it possible to create PLE solutions which are developed to suit the demands from both teachers and students. PLE in combination with technical tools increase the students’ interest in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) subjects, which is important as there is a growing demand in STEM related professions. The young generation of today primarily learn by being interactive. This requires interactive classrooms with personalized ICT solutions.