Title : 
Personal learning environments in a global higher engineering education Web 2.0 realm
         
        
            Author : 
Gillet, Denis ; Law, Effie L -C ; Chatterjee, Arunangsu
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Sch. of Eng., Ecole Polytech. Federate de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
This paper presents investigations on formal and informal requirements for personal learning environments taking into account students´ personal and social learning practices. The potential of global Web 2.0 educational service bundles and informal learning communities, as well as their recommendation by educators are addressed. A scenario showing how these new paradigms can be integrated in engineering education as a way to bring together personal and social learning practices is drawn.
         
        
            Keywords : 
Internet; computer aided instruction; engineering education; global Web 2.0 educational service; global higher engineering education; personal learning environment; social learning practice; Blogs; Collaboration; Computer science; Digital audio broadcasting; Educational technology; Engineering education; Environmental management; Least squares approximation; Software prototyping; Educational Widgets; Learning Communities; Mash up; Personal Learning; Personal Learning Environments; Social Learning; Web 2.0;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Education Engineering (EDUCON), 2010 IEEE
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Madrid
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-6568-2
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-6570-5
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492483