ELGG --> new social and collaboration platforms...

• Member profiling
• Activity streams
• Real-time updates
• Threaded discussions
• Notifications
• Group spaces
• File sharing areas
• Content co-creation tools

Edutopia Community Groups (desarrollo de comunidades de Práctica ó Interés)

Our community welcomes all teachers, administrators, parents, and others who are passionate about improving education. Please review our Community Principles and Guidelines before participation.

like WordPress/Buddypress or Elgg. But, more importantly, these types of platforms can now support a wide range of collaborative working and learning activities very effectively, and ensure that learning (both formal and informal) is  seen as an integral part of the workflow.(From “learning technologies” to “social technologies”)

George Siemens points out 7 trends in education:

• Many learners will move into a variety of different, possibly unrelated fields over the course of their lifetime.
• Informal learning is a significant aspect of our learning experience. Formal education no longer comprises the majority of our learning. Learning now occurs in a variety of ways – through communities of practice, personal networks, and through completion of work-related tasks.
• Learning is a continual process, lasting for a lifetime. Learning and work related activities are no longer separate. In many situations, they are the same.
• Technology is altering (rewiring) our brains. The tools we use define and shape our thinking.
• The organization and the individual are both learning organisms. Increased attention to knowledge management highlights the need for a theory that attempts to explain the link between individual and organizational learning.
• Many of the processes previously handled by learning theories (especially in cognitive information processing) can now be off-loaded to, or supported by, technology.
• Know-how and know-what is being supplemented with know-where (the understanding of where to find knowledge needed).

Net Work Skills

Definiciones de 'Espacio Personal de Aprendizaje' (PLE)...