Section outline

  • The most common method for representing a PLE is a simple diagram. Thus far, the most convenient way to represent a scholarly ontology is an excel spreadsheet which can output to various file formats. One of these presents a simple holistic view of a PLE, the other presents an atomised view of research activity in the form of scholarly ontology. Reconciling these two methods of representing scholarly activity is a significant boundary problem of the type which is at the heart of bridging the gap between human understanding and digital representations.

    In order to deepen and enrich learners' ability to describe their digital tool use more explicitly,we propose to add another layer to the signature pedagogy of PLE.

    For teaching purposes this entails:

    ● Ask students to draw a diagram of their PLE in the traditional way.

    ● Ask students to modify the original diagram to include workflow, and the dimensions of trust.

    ● Ask students to break down that PLE diagram by applying a Scholarly Ontology like NeMO to it.

    This scenario for teaching and learning is explained in more detail in the plan below.