Course overview

Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) are a response to the way people are using technology for learning and which allows them to themselves shape their own learning spaces, to form and join communities and to create, consume, remix, and share material.

Apprenticeships are seen as a way of providing training leading to contextualized and situated competence: the ability to apply knowledge to practice. Learning takes place through different organisations and learning venues. Apprentices provide evidence of their learning and competence, often in the form of a portfolio.

With the growth of Higher Level Apprenticeships and the new demands for creativity, digital competence PLEs provide a structure for both scaffolding and managing personal learning learning, as well and developing and supporting metacognition.

The issue is how to support apprentices in developing their Personal Learning Environment.

Target audience: 

The course provides as an example Apprentices in Social work at EQF Levels 4 and 5 in the UK. But it is applicable for any  teachers and trainers aiming to support higher level apprentices in developing their Personal Learning Environments.