Implementation of PLE, ¿urgent need in blended learning, to promote the collective construction of knowledge?

Abstract

This article is a theoretical description in the context of the university center of valleys of the University of Guadalajara. In this research are not yet conclusive results are described some of the current problems that the use of the moodle platform were detected in students in a blended mode of CUValles education. It is quite interesting to dive into the world of PLE (personal learning environments), as a way to promote the diversity of tools available on the internet, so that students choose the wide variety of devices, content, storage, interaction modes and collective work, according to their own way of learning. Some of the powers that using the PLE, students can acquire based on the precepts of emerging technologies are described. In a previous diagnostic study, conducted in 2014 by three researchers from the laboratory of educational innovation and quality it found that students do not use many of the tools themselves moodle. It´s used for sending tasks (repository), rather than for activities co-construction of knowledge and exchange of information. It´s not used for on-line and off-line interaction between teachers and students, student-student, etc. it is therefore a way of working much more individualized and little playful way, and almost no possibility of promoting meaningful learning, self-management and projects through collective intelligence. In the university center of valleys moodle institutionalized way it is used, it´s the officially recognized for students and interact teachers and complement the activities carried out in the face to face, and therefore the rest of the day converge in this LMS (learning management system).