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eLearning & Deliberative Moments: The present and future of Personal Learning Environments (PLE)

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At the time of writing this introduction (August 2006), no particular product or service exists that can definitively be categorised as a PLE, although some prototypical work is in progress. In January 2006, Blackboard Inc. , By 2002, there was feverish activity to create ePortfolios as personalised learning content management systems.

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From Shared Databases to Communities of Practice: A Taxonomy of Collaboratories

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Bafoutsou and Mentzas (2002) reviewed this literature and mapped it onto the specific technology functionalities of modern groupware systems. In spring of 2002 the Science of Collaboratories project started putting together a database of collaboratories that would be the most comprehensive analysis of such projects to date. References.