Structure in the flow

Just a quick pointer to an interesting post by Eric Blue on his personal knowledge management system (or Personal Learning Environment). It’s always great to see how others approach the general problem of organizing their knowledge, what they use for the different subproblems, how it reaches a “coherent whole” level.

I’ve been wanting to write here about Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) for some time. A few definitions are floating around, but my understanding is that they’re these set of digital tools we use to organize what/how we learn, considered as a whole, centered around the individual learner instead of a group (vs. Learning Management Systems, like WebCT or Moodle). A few other people have written about their own systems:

• Michelle Martin
• David Delgado
• Jay Allen

You’ve seen bits and pieces of mine through the posts, even though I learned of the term as I was creating the blog and doing the initial research, so until that point I didn’t see it in this light. Very interesting topic to explore, for the curious.