The results of this study demonstrate the potential for Personal Learning Environments as a tool for Lifelong Learning, linked to communities of practice. Personal Learning Environments can extend access to educational technology to everyone wanting to organise their own learning. PLEs can include and bring together all learning, including informal learning, workplace learning, learning from the home, learning driven by problem solving and learning motivated by personal interest as well as learning through engagement in formal educational programmes.

Source: Pontydysgu - Bridge to Learning

Information overload? Not anymore. Single Page Aggregators are the new wave of web 2.0 portals and directories. Instead of aggregating web sites, the Single Page Aggregators track the feeds from those sites.

Until now Popurls and Original Signal only tracked a few popular topics. Recently Alltop covering a much broader range of topics, was launched by Guy Kawasaki, who wants to change the world by aggregating RSS For The Masses .

Alltop will certainly appeal to those who need an easy way to follow many topics or don’t use yet a feed reader.

I have my own Single Page Aggregator at emapey | FeedRaider where I can quickly scan the feeds from the Education sites I follow. You can create yours too. Now, by using Alltop, I can also follow feeds in many other topics.

emapey | FeedRaider and Alltop are both part of my PLE (Personal Learning Environment)

Wired Campus: Chronicle.com published another list of popular YouTube open courseware videos

Self Made Scholar published a list of free web based video classes and courses for self learners

OEDb published a list of university opencourseware classes to learn natural science, mathematics, engineering & computer science, language, arts & design, health, agriculture &veterinary medicine, law & politics, social science, history, theology, business & finance and family & education

Lifehack.org published a list of tips to cultivate the habit of lifelong learning.

How Do You Decide What You Want To Learn? Once you’re clear of what you want to learn, take a moment to look through these online tools. 90% of them are free and I’m sure you’ll be definitely be able to find something that suits you. Have fun!

Source: Goal Setting College

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