DIGITAL LIBRARY
WORKSHOP OF PERSONAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS (PLES) FOR TEACHERS. HOW PLES HELP ONLINE TRAINING
University of Jaén (SPAIN)
About this paper:
Appears in: INTED2021 Proceedings
Publication year: 2021
Pages: 178-184
ISBN: 978-84-09-27666-0
ISSN: 2340-1079
doi: 10.21125/inted.2021.0053
Conference name: 15th International Technology, Education and Development Conference
Dates: 8-9 March, 2021
Location: Online Conference
Abstract:
Due to the COVID19 crisis, teachers at high level, have reacted with all the available means and tools so that the quality of the teaching has not been affected. In each university different scenarios have been proposed, but in a common way the administrations that supervise education at a state level, including at a European level, have proposed common guidelines. Although many experiences have been carried out at Degree level, it is important to highlight that each experience must be adapted to both teachers and students profile for a better integration into their teaching-learning process. The efficient use of some tools need certain skills on the part of the teachers and the students.

The Personal Learning Environment is a concept that allows the design of training around key competencies such as the competence of learning to learn and digital competence. It is considered as the use of technologies for learning in which a set of tools, sources of information, connections and activities are used by each student to learn.

The University of Jaén, has been developing classroom experiences related to the PLEs in engineering subjects for several academic years. Given the potential of the tools and the good acceptance of the students, a course for teachers has been organized in order to explain these experiences.

This work shows the experience of a training course about PLE for teachers of different areas: Laws, Psychology, Humanities, Science, Health ... ..among others. During the course, the theoretical concepts have been explained and examples of the organization of activities and follow-up have been shown.

The results have been very satisfactory and show how the university concerned about the quality of teaching is capable of generating collaborative environments for the exchange of experiences in areas that are not related a priori.
Keywords:
Personal learning environments, teachers, online teaching, tools.