Registration is now open for NERCOMP's upcoming workshop:  "Personal Learning Environments Within the Institution"

DATE: November 9, 2009

TIME: 9:00 - 3:00 (Coffee and Registration start at 8:00)

PRICE: NERCOMP Members: $110, Non-Members: $235 (includes continental breakfast and lunch)

LOCATION: University of Massachusetts - Amherst , Campus Center - First Floor (Amherst, MA)

DESCRIPTION: The explosion and continued development of web 2.0 tools, coupled with the growing acceptance of Social Constructivism and Connectives as learning theories, has resulted in an embarrassment of teaching and learning riches that somehow, seem to be slightly out of reach. The dilemma is that user-friendly tools, which are typically browser-based and often open source, are almost by their very nature, antithetical to playing well with institutional learning management systems (LMS).

LMSs provide structure, standardization, and control. A combination of web 2.0 tools chosen by the individual as his or her preferred means to interact with the electronic world (PLE) offers flexibility, independence, and a sense of personal creativity and empowerment heretofore not generally available to the masses.

Can the two coexist? If so, how? Or is it simply that institutional PLEs are oxymoronic?

 For a full schedule and registration information, please go to: http://www.nercomp.org/events/ event_single.aspx?id=5865

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