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Personal learning environments: design and use / Los entornos personales de aprendizaje en la educación superior: del diseño al uso

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Pages 775-801 | Received 16 May 2013, Accepted 08 Nov 2013, Published online: 15 Dec 2014
 

Abstract

This study focuses on the uses that two groups of higher education students make of technological resources offered by an institution to build their own personal learning environments. The main thesis is that these uses depend on the techno-pedagogical design of the teaching and learning process in which the technological resources are framed. In order to explore and illustrate this thesis two instructional sequences have been analysed. Both use the same technological design, the Elgg platform, which allows users to select and organize a set of resources or widgets according to their interests and needs. The results show that in both cases the uses that students make of technology are related to the characteristics and requirements of the particular techno-pedagogical designs. We conclude that the key is not to offer technological resources to the students so they can build their own personal learning environments, but to design activities that attract and induce them to build these personal environments and to guide and support the process of construction.

Resumen

Este trabajo tiene como foco los usos que dos grupos de estudiantes de educación superior hacen de los recursos tecnológicos puestos a su disposición para construir su propio entorno personal de aprendizaje. La tesis principal es que estos usos dependen del diseño tecno-pedagógico del proceso de enseñanza y aprendizaje en el que se enmarcan los recursos tecnológicos disponibles. Con el fin de explorar esta tesis se analizan dos secuencias instruccionales. Ambas utilizan un mismo diseño tecnológico, el proporcionado por la plataforma Elgg, que permite a los usuarios seleccionar y organizar un conjunto de recursos o widgets en función de sus intereses y necesidades. Los resultados muestran cómo en ambos casos los usos que los estudiantes hacen de los recursos tecnológicos se relacionan con las características y exigencias de los diseños tecno-pedagógicos respectivos. Se concluye que la clave no está en ofrecer a los estudiantes universitarios recursos tecnológicos para que puedan construir sus propios entornos personales de aprendizaje, sino en diseñar actividades que les inviten e induzcan a construirlos y que guíen y apoyen su construcción.

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