How do you personalise?

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I have just read a very interesting post by Josie Fraser (always a good read) who has a great diagram which points up some of the implicit assumptions people make about PLEs without realising they are talking about completely different things. I think we need to clarify where Isthmus fits in this grid …as we may find some of our assumptions are not the same.

Of course not that Isthmus is necessarily trying to build a PLE…

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About Marion Manton

I amSenior Manager: Learning Design and co-manager of TALL with David White. Previous to that I was eLearning Research Project Manager. As well as the day to day running of TALL I am responsible for the ensuring that all TALL programmes are best practice examples of learning online for their audience. I work closely with course teams to specify the learning they want to achieve with their programme and to identify the best uses of technology to do this. I also maintain currency with the latest research in eLearning, to ensure that TALL is aware of and exploits the best current knowledge of what works in terms of effective eLearning. My particular interests are in effective pedagogical models for different learning scenarios and how best to facilitate these by the appropriate use of technology. As well as the development of effective tools and processes to help academics identify these and translate knowledge of their subject and teaching into high quality online learning.

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  1. I completely agree that having a strategy for how we are going to approach the LT aspect of the project is essential and it’s a document which we could certainly do with. It would be great if you could create that and circulate it to everyone to comment on.

    There is a danger in a project like this that everyone wants to get stuck in and get moving on the project before the strategy has been decided. This may result in work or research being made redundant so it is critical to get the strategies and plans down in writing as soon as possible. Then we can post them on the project website where everyone can refer to them as necessary.

    Having said that, I think that it can be counter-productive to try to identify our solutions before we have the results of our research since it may mean that we try to tailor our research to the results we want to obtain, which is not the most rigorous or robust approach to take.

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