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February 19th, 2008

Web 2.0, Personal Learning Environments and the future of schooling

Attwell, Graham

Forthcoming, 2007

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Although the Personal Learning Environment (PLE) is a very new term, (the first recorded use of the term is November 4, 2004) the concept represents the latest step in an alternative approach to e-learning which can trace its origins to earlier systems such as Colloquia, the first peer-to-peer learning system (released as Learning Landscapes in 2000), and to more recent phenomena such as the Elgg system (released in 2003) (PLE Wiki).

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