Title:	PERSONAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT WHITE-SPACES – LIMITS OF VLES (VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS) AND MUVES (MULTI-USER VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS) DURING A PROCESS OF EVALUATION OF KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER
Author(s):	Jakub Štogr
ISBN:	978-972-8939-46-5
Editors:	Piet Kommers and Pedro Isaías
Year:	2011
Edition:	Single
Keywords:	Knowledge transfer, Evaluation, Multi-user Virtual Environment (MUVE), Personal Learning Environment (PLE), Virtual Learning Environment (VLE)
Type:	Short Paper
First Page:	372
Last Page:	376
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) - also called Learning Management Systems (LMSs) - are online available software platforms designed to support teaching and learning. In such an environment where supervisors can set each step of learning process and afterwards have an access to students log of actual activities VLEs cause the “creepy treehouse” effect, means lack of confidence in a controlled environment. Data from logs are therefore incomplete and limited to actions that meet requirements of the course, for example logging into the VLE and uploading homework in time. In contrary, MUVEs (Multi-User Virtual Environments) in general do not provide special access to data logs of other users - all users have the same access as other users have. To be able to assess and evaluate a knowledge transfer in MUVEs where we have no role of supervisor, gathering publicly available data from one source is not enough. Therefore we need to change our perspective from "single software environment based" to mapping behavior of a user inside of his/her own Personal Learning Environment (PLE). We need to find and further investigate a “white spaces” in his/her personal learning environment to be able to decrypt behavior and learning strategies inside the particular VLE or MUVE.
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