Twenty-fifth International Conference on Learning

Abstract

For sometimes there has been an ongoing discussion about personal learning environments, which means students have their own ownership of their learning in environments they prefer to take as a part of their learning processes. Learning assignments and artefacts should no longer been restored in learning management systems of educational institutions. The claim of the personal learning environments is rising from the idea lifelong learning as well as from informal learning as a meaningful part of a learning process. For teacher it has rosen a question of scaffolding. In the school of professional teacher education student teachers used their personal learning environment collaboratively during an online course. A learning design was based on a pedagogical model that was compared with a scaffolding model of online learning processes while a teacher is a facilitator. The results indicates that a pedagogical model may include all scaffolding activities. However, an online scaffolding has to be designed with a special attention with all stages of pedagogical model. This study also suggests that one of the most important environment for a scaffolding is to do it directly in student’s personal learning environment.