PERSONAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT: A SUPPORT FOR DESIGNING

With Web 2.0, the university community have developed new learning practices. Students adopt practices for integrating their social activities into their learning process. The needs of learners are rapidly changed and institutions don’t still offer resources totally adapted to this context. Students expect to have access to a vast amount of information through formal or informal tools and to be part of a global peer community. The need to combine institutional and personal resources implies a new concept: Personal Learning Environment (PLE). A PLE is defined as a space for learners to customize the aggregation of heterogeneous resources for their learning needs. Developing such environments requires the involvement of complex skills that higher education students, though described as digital natives, do not necessarily possess. The objective of this research work is to allow students to have support for the construction of their PLE as a dashboard. It would provide an up-to-date view of resources use and further exploit the resulting linkages. The proposed solution is based on the Agent-Group-Role organizational model, one of design method for multi-agent systems. The paper will describe the proposed model and how it could be implemented.