SB204 Personal Learning Environments: A Digital Platform for Self-directed Learning
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM Thursday, June 11
New Possibilities
Personal learning environments (PLEs) enable the development of personal and social learning spaces to support learner-centered and personalized learning experiences, empowering learners to direct their own learning and develop self-regulated learning skills. They do so because they’re built from the bottom up, by the learners, starting with personal goals, information management, and individual knowledge construction, and progressing to socially mediated knowledge and networked learning. In this session you will explore the use of a three-level pedagogical framework that assists in scaffolding PLE development using social media technologies, in order to support self-regulated learning.
Nada Dabbagh
Professor
George Mason University
Nada Dabbagh is a professor and the director of the learning technologies division in the College of Education and Human Development at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. She holds a PhD in instructional systems design from the Pennsylvania State University. She teaches graduate courses in instructional design, eLearning design and pedagogy, and cognition and technology. Nada’s research focuses on the pedagogical ecology of learning technologies with the goal of understanding the social and cognitive consequences of learning systems design. Specific research interests include interaction design, personal learning environments, case problem generation and representation in problem-based learning, supporting self-regulated learning in online learning, and leveraging social media for personalized learning experiences.
