Preservice Teachers’ Perception and Use of Personal Learning Environments (PLEs)

Personal learning environments (PLEs) are Web 2.0 tools and services by which users’ access, construct, manage, and share educational contents in order to meet their learning needs. These environments enable users to manage their learning according to their own personal preferences. They further pro...

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Autores principales:	Sami Şahin, Çelebi Uluyol
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Publicado:	Athabasca University Press 2016
Materias:	personal learning environments perception use preservice teachers Special aspects of education LC8-6691
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:58c0bfdd5fe548d9bc67aa34503cd1782021-12-02T19:26:00ZPreservice Teachers’ Perception and Use of Personal Learning Environments (PLEs)10.19173/irrodl.v17i2.22841492-3831https://doaj.org/article/58c0bfdd5fe548d9bc67aa34503cd1782016-03-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/2284https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831Personal learning environments (PLEs) are Web 2.0 tools and services by which users’ access, construct, manage, and share educational contents in order to meet their learning needs. These environments enable users to manage their learning according to their own personal preferences. They further promote socialization and collaboration with their broad user networks and interaction facilities. In this study, with a case sample from a public university in Turkey, student teachers’ PLE use and their perceptions regarding these environments are examined. For data collection, the PLE Perception Scale and PLE Use Scale developed by the researchers were used. It was observed that all participants used various PLEs and found them easy and practical on the whole. However, it was found that this utilization mostly had the aim of access and sharing knowledge in learning, while use of constructing and managing it remained limited. Emailing, social networking, file sharing, video sharing, Internet searching, and social encyclopedias were found most commonly used PLEs. Our findings also show that gender and grade level do not have an effect on the perception and use of PLEs.Sami ŞahinÇelebi UluyolAthabasca University Pressarticlepersonal learning environmentsperceptionusepreservice teachersSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 17, Iss 2 (2016)
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description	Personal learning environments (PLEs) are Web 2.0 tools and services by which users’ access, construct, manage, and share educational contents in order to meet their learning needs. These environments enable users to manage their learning according to their own personal preferences. They further promote socialization and collaboration with their broad user networks and interaction facilities. In this study, with a case sample from a public university in Turkey, student teachers’ PLE use and their perceptions regarding these environments are examined. For data collection, the PLE Perception Scale and PLE Use Scale developed by the researchers were used. It was observed that all participants used various PLEs and found them easy and practical on the whole. However, it was found that this utilization mostly had the aim of access and sharing knowledge in learning, while use of constructing and managing it remained limited. Emailing, social networking, file sharing, video sharing, Internet searching, and social encyclopedias were found most commonly used PLEs. Our findings also show that gender and grade level do not have an effect on the perception and use of PLEs.
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title	Preservice Teachers’ Perception and Use of Personal Learning Environments (PLEs)
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Preservice Teachers’ Perception and Use of Personal Learning Environments (PLEs)

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