ePortfolios and Personal Learning Environments (PLEs).

Catching up from my six months offline. Thanks to Jeremy Hiebert: these are entries from his Weblog that I don't want to lose.

Seblogging PLEs Sebastian Fiedler captures much of the recent PLE buzz and offers his own excellent take on the topic: "I treat personal learning environments more as a psychological perspective. What forms my 'personal learning environment' at a given point in time, and for a particular purpose or goal (that drives a learning project), is largely determined by the range of resources that I am able to perceive, locate, link to, access, manage, and so forth."    Personal Learning Environment Model Thanks to some valuable feedback from Dave Tosh, Aaron Campbell, James Farmer, Aaron Nelson and Graham Attwell, I've spent some time fixing up my midnight-brain-dump e-portfolio model.   E-Portfolio Model I've been thinking more about personal learning environments and pondering how they might be different than e-portfolios. Is the PLE just a new label that seems to focus more on individual needs and has more latitude to include different kinds of tools? Did vendors and institutions kill the initial promise of e-portfolios by trying to turn the concept into a single tool (product) used to measure student achievement?

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