Personal Learning Environments as Enablers for Connectivist MOOCs

Denis Gillet (1)

1 EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

This paper presents how platforms initially designed to enable the construction of personal learning environments can help teachers and learners to aggregate their own MOOCs from resources freely available in the Cloud under Creative Commons licenses. Compare to the mainstream MOOC platforms like Coursera or EdX which are basically learning management systems open to external students, the proposed solution offers built-in social media features to boost opportunistic interaction and informal exchanges between students.

Keywords: Personal Learning Environments; PLE; Massive Open Online Courses; MOOCs; Connectivism; cMOOCs; Informal Learning; Lifelong Learning; Cloud

Domains: Humanities and Social Sciences; Education

Denis Gillet. Personal Learning Environments as Enablers for Connectivist MOOCs. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training, Oct 2013, Antalya, Turkey. pp.1-5. ⟨hal-00979391⟩