Personal environments in network learning: dialectical-didactics relation and reflection from virtual platforms

Abstract

Personal Learning Environments (ple) has become a formula for ict application to different teaching-learning processes, from the academic to the most informal. The way in which this environments interact and intertwine define both the  pedagogical potential as the underlying learning theories. Tools, resources and applications 2.0 are deployed in a virtual platform way, according to different blending of unions, which will determine their educational utilization.
The communicative models that are assumed also are important pieces in these knowledge generation puzzles. The active and constructive participation of those who are immersed in these environments is an aspect to be considered, due to the importance that sender and receiver roles acquire in any process of generating and assimilating knowledge.
This study seeks to sketch general outlines about general mayor schemes that these ple can follow; analyzing the functions that each virtual platforms assume, the way in which these parts are included in the different learning processes, as well as the intentionality, action and the communication models implemented. It is also proposed a reflection from the implementation of these models, justifying the potential difficulties, as well as critical vision that has an aim to concrete training application of technologic tools: didactics, free software, container-content duality, etc.