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

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But whether constructively and defensively, interest in PLE appears to be growing. PLEs are meant to simplify managing these artefacts, creating meaning through aggregation, linking and metadata tagging (eg comments, keywords). But a PLE could host a searchable index to metadata about offline resources.

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Toward An Integrated Model of Information Seeking and Searching

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So, people accustomed to mostly passive ways of learning new information not only have to search actively for the information, but also have to master a fair amount of ancillary skills and knowledge just to be able to search for the information, with no guarantee that that effort will actually lead to an answer. Information Farming.

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