Personal Learning Environment (PLE) is a way to self reflect and organize one’s multiple learning ecosystems. It promotes self-learning – taking ownership of one’s own development academically and professionally. It is also ever evolving and can be adapted as we age or as we change our career goals.
With this, below is my initial learning environment. I have organized them according to Research, Learning, Creativity or Content Creation, Organization / Storage and Communication. These aspects are the usual tools that I use.
With further reading, inputs and reviews, I improved the PLE to include new tools and a new section to illustrate the aspect of technical design. Being in a special scientific and engineering field, the tools to create technical content are also important.
The research aspect was made more modern and updated by incorporating AI tools such as Chatgpt and Research Rabbit.
Under content and creativity, I divided the tools into 2 groups: (1) writing/text content and (2) graphic design. Similarly, storage and organization are now grouped according to the function. For example, SharePoint and Teams are grouped together because they are more on collaborative tools.
Notion, is a new tool I included in the organization & storage section because it serves as an online productivity and task management application. Several colleagues recommended this to me and I would like to attempt to use it.
New learning platforms such as podcasts in spotify and the virtual/actual library of UPM are some of tools added in the learning section of the PLE.
The new section – technical & modeling have 3 main groups. First group is on data analysis tools such as Minitab, PowerBI, MatLab and so on. The next group is on technical drawing – Autocad, Visio and SketchUp. Lastly, life cycle analysis software such as OpenLCA that I already know, and additional tools that I would like to learn more about (ex. SimaPro and One Click LCA).
The over-all design was also improved to make it more contemporary and minimalist. I was also motivated to create a desktop set-up to imagine my PLE as a virtual workspace.
About JULIA PATRICIA MARI LOPEZ ALONZO
Hi! I'm Julia from the Philippines. A packaging specialist that's currently working towards my master degree in circular economy under the Advanced Materials Innovative Recycling (AMIR) program. Please connect with me in LinkedIn. Looking forward to have you part of my professional network!
