PERSONAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT (PLE)

PERSONAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT (PLE)

1. LANGUAJES SKILL FOCUS

   • The PLEs aim to devepoled the four foreign language skills in the course "Foreign Language for Specific Purposes"
     • Reading
     • Listening
     • Speaking
     • Writing

2. MAIN IDEA

   • The article explores, the concept of a PLE, focused on the student in higher education, as a means to transform teaching and learnig practices in foreign languages, by integrating ICT

3. CONTEXT AND RATIONALE

   • *The knowledge economy values human capital and skill workforce.
   • *Digital technology has changed learning behaviors and teaching methods.
   • *Higher education must constantly adapt to quality indicators and integrated use of communication and educational technologies.
   • *Foreign language teaching in non language universities requires a new paradigm due to strong digital influence.

4. OBJETIVE

   • To reveal the opportunities for creating PLEs through the incorporation of ICT in foregn language teaching, focusing on the roles of teachers and students in designing efficient and adaptable learning environments.

5. KEY COMPONENTS OF PLEs

   • *Students
   • *ICT (Technological tools and resources)
   • *Learning process
   • *Teachers
   • *Revelant teaching methods and learning strategies

6. KEY TRENDS AND CHALLENGES

   • Global demand for quality education with digital media and revelant content.
   • Need for innovative pedagogy, "learning by doing" and knowledge construction.
   • Rise of the internet, WEB.0, smart applications, social networks and open educational resources.
   • Student motivation and engagement.

7. ROLE OF ICT

   • Offers unlimited potential for building PLEs.
   • Supports both classroom and informal learning
   • Provides a set of practical activities for students.
   • Enables active participation inside and outside the classroom.

8. THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE

   • Learning with technology requires active student participation.
   • ICT acts both as tool and as a knowledge object.
   • User-certered learning principles support personalized, adaptable and cognitively effective environmets.
   • Digital technology changes the way knowledge is acquired and shared.