Personal Learning Environments: The Debate

Designing educational technology for social justice (Grant, L & Villalobos, 2008) from Futurelab is an interesting publication and pertinent to the debate about VLEs and PLEs.

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The logic of education systems should be reversed so that it is the system that conforms to the learner, rather than the learner to the system. This is the essence of personalisation. It demands a system capable of offering bespoke support for each individual that recognises and builds upon their diverse strengths, interests, abilities and needs in order to foster engaged and independent learners able to reach their full potential.