PLEcp 2014 - First International Workshop on Personal Learning Environments in Creative Practice

In recent years the notion of Personal Learning Environments has gained considerable traction and popularity within the wider educational technology and web-based learning research community. However, so far the majority of research and development efforts have focused on applications within the boundaries of formal, institutional educational settings. Relatively little attention has been paid to the formation and development of personal learning environments in the context of the unfolding digital transformation of professional work in general, and creative practices in particular.
Many contemporary creative practices seemingly depend on a complex interplay of material and digital instrumentation and mediation on one hand, and a range of action strategies (such as tinkering, probing, etc.) on the other hand, that differ significantly from what is usually found and promoted in formal educational settings. To develop the notion of personal learning environments in the context of creative practice, we propose the initiation of a decidedly cross-disciplinary discourse on its emerging phenomenology, the structural requirements of its material and (increasingly) digital mediation, and aspects of appropriation and re-appropriation of digital instruments in its context.
Our proposed workshop is thus trying to bring together scholars from different and relatively separate research strands, namely Personal Learning Environments, Design Research and Design Education, and Technology Enhanced Workplace Learning, to share and discuss a variety of conceptual and empirical perspectives on personal learning and its mediation in creative practice.
Our main goal is to explore the possible formation of objects of research and a minimal descriptive vocabulary that could be shared by scholars from different strands of research. We will thus welcome conceptual, analytical and empirical contributions that promise to support the intended discursive encounter and our proposed agenda.
Topics of interest
The role of chance and forward-looking thinking in creative practice
The role of re-appropriation and creative re-use in digital instrumentation and (re-)materialisation
Tinkering in the creation and development of personal learning environments
Appropriation and re-appropriation of digital devices in creative practice
The interplay of digitisation and (re-)materialisation
Personal learning environments and the unfolding digital transformation of professional creative practice
The formation of personal learning environments from a developmental perspective
Design practice and personal learning
Transcending boundaries of material and digital practice
The role of physical space and material artifacts in digitally mediated creative practice
istorically new forms of individual and collective learning activity in creative practice
Methodological challenges of researching the digital transformation of creative practice
Intervention research and other forms of alternative inquiry into creative practice
Workshop organisers & chairs
Dr. Sebastian H.D. Fiedler &
Dr. Emanuele Bardone
HTK Centre for Educational Technology
Institute of Informatics
Tallinn University
Estonia
Program committee (tentative)
Ademar Aguiar ? University of Porto (Portugal)
Heidrun Allert ? University of Kiel (Germany)
Graham Attwell ? Pontydysgu (UK)
Sakina Baharom ? UNITAR International University (Malaysia)
Ilona Buchem ? Beuth University of Applied Sciences (Germany)
Arunangsu Chatterjee ? University of Plymout (UK)
Linda Castañeda ? University of Murcia (Spain)
Cristina Costa ? University Strathclyde (UK)
Rob Fitzgerald ? University of Canberra (Australia)
Rita Kop ? Yorkville University (Canada)
Allison Littlejohn ? Glasgow Caledonian University (UK)
Anoush Margaryan ? Glasgow Caledonian University (UK)
Kai Pata ? Tallinn University (Estonia)
Annette Pedersen ? University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
Luís Pedro ? University of Aveiro (Portugal)
Maria Perifanou ? University of Athens (Greece)
Sabine Reisas ? University of Kiel (Germany)
Christoph Richter ? University of Kiel (Germany)
Carlos Santos ? University of Aveiro (Portugal)
Ricardo Torres Kompen ? Entrelaza ? Asociación Tecnosocial (Spain)
Gemma Tur Ferrer ? University of the Balearic Islands (Spain)
Terje Väljataga ? Tallinn University (Estonia)
Workshop format
The workshop will be run like a research symposium. It will combine the presentation of research papers followed by moderated discussions among the participants.