Firehouse introduction: Awareness and Reflection in Personal Learning Environments

AWARENESS AND REFLECTION IN PERSONAL LEARNING

ENVIRONMENTS WORKSHOP AT THE PLE 2011

CONFERENCEFIREHOUSE INTRODUCTION

Thomas Daniel Ullmann, Rebecca Ferguson, Simon Buckingham Shum - Knowledge Media Institute, OU

Ruth Deakin Crick – University of Bristol

Designing an Online Mentoring System for Self-Awareness and Reflection on Lifelong Learning Skills

In other terms:

How to map an established face-to-face mentoring system to an online system.

ELLIMent: Supporting Life Long Learning Skills Online

Online Mentoring. Based on the ELLI

(Effective Life Long Learning Inventory).

Awareness: Representation of seven learning power dimensions.

Reflection: Exchange of reflections between mentee and mentor and vice verse.

Reflection history.

http://kmi.open.ac.uk/technologies/name/elliment

Challenges of this research What elements of face-to-face mentoring

are essential and realizable as an online tool.

Using ELLIMent in a PLE scenario. What makes a good mentor if everyone can be

your personal mentor? Can we build a system which connects you with

the right mentor?Can learning paths help to reflect on life long

learning skills? Analytics: How to detect support needs.

What should we focus on during this workshop?

Awareness and Reflection Components Design patterns Vision sharing Fun

Research agenda for the next five years Applications - the reflection corner: Enabling every learner having

access to reflections on a topic of interest, to share own reflections, and to get feedback on them.

Reflection and perception:Reflective writing seems to be a tedious process. How can we make it more fun?The language of public reflections.

Theory - the relation between awareness and reflection:What is worth to reflect on? There are many things we can be aware of, but which are worth to reflect on?

Design: Design recipes, to foster reflection Methods: Evaluation of informal awareness and reflection systems. The role of feedback and skills: How important is the role of a

mentor? How much guidance is needed? Vision building: Towards an aware and reflective learner.

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