Towards Guided Personal Learning Environments: Concept, Theory, and Practice

Guided Personal Learning Environment concept (gPLEc) is a novel PLE-building methodology which seeks to fulfill emergent learning needs of a learner through incorporating teachers´ guidance element in learners´ PLE-building activity. Using Social Semantic Web (SSW) and Recommender System (RS) technologies the gPLEc integrates teachers´ PLE-based learning competencies and learners´ social web and interaction history data to generate personalized recommendations for each learner. The results, achieved so far, confirm importance of teachers´ guidance element for successful implementation of the PLE vision. The expected outcome of this exploratory research is to gain knowledge to construct personalized elearning systems.