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Direct linkRahimi, Ebrahim; van den Berg, Jan; Veen, Wim – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2015
In recent educational literature, it has been observed that improving student's control has the potential of increasing his or her feeling of ownership, personal agency and activeness as means to maximize his or her educational achievement. While the main conceived goal for personal learning environments (PLEs) is to increase student's control by…
Descriptors: Web 2.0 Technologies, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Locus of Control
Johnson, Mark; Liber, Oleg – Interactive Learning Environments, 2008
We present the Personal Learning Environment (PLE) as a practical intervention concerning the organization of technology in education. We explain this by proposing a cybernetic model of the "Personal Learner" using Beer's Viable System Model (VSM). Using the VSM, we identify different regulatory mechanisms that maintain viability for learners, and…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Self Efficacy, Academic Achievement, Cybernetics
Reconceptualizing the Theory-Base of Educational Technology: Re-opening the Theory-Practice Debates.
Koetting, J. Randall – 1981
Freire's model of emancipatory education is one alternative to the behaviorist theory of education predominant in the field of educational technology. The educational context, the teaching/learning situation, is an extremely complex situation. Reducing this situation to a question of inputs and outputs oversimplifies the many facets of education.…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Curriculum, Educational Technology, Learning Theories
