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Do any of you have experience with Personal Learning Environments (PLEs)? How will course management systems and virtual learning environments become more responsive to individual users both in terms of content and the customisation of applications? How desirable and how workable are PLEs for educational institutions? A new book on the subject is accepting proposals for chapters and case studies. More information here:…See More

I'm putting together a new book collection on "Web 2.0 in Education: Applying the New Digital Literacies". The book will seek to interrogate many of the popular concepts that have thus far shaped discussions about Web 2.0 in the classroom (digital natives, platform of participation, collective intelligence) by seeking contributions based on actual empirical research. Digital natives, for example, while intuitively valuable, is a contested term that needs contextualizing and should not be taken…See More