The Open University ’ s repository of research publications and other research outputs Personal learning environments ( PLEs ) : visions and concepts

The Open University ’ s repository of research publications and other research outputs The MUPPLE competence continuum

The idea of Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) seems to polarise the educational sphere into supporters and opponents. Both groups relate their enthusiasm or criticism to underlying competences motivated by or needed for building up, running, and maintaining a PLE. Within the following article, results of a qualitative study with multiple cases will be presented to shed light onto which comp...

The Open University ’ s repository of research publications and other research outputs How do some concepts vanish over time ?

This paper presents the current stage of my PhD research focused on the use of machine learning in supporting the human learn from examples. I present here an approach to answer how some concepts change their contexts in time, using two techniques suitable for indexing and data mining: latent semantic indexing (LSI) and the APRIORI algorithm.

The Open University ’ s repository of research publications and other research outputs Learning the language of school history : the role of linguistics in mapping the writing demands of the sec - ondary school curriculum

The Open University's repository of research publications and other research outputs Learning the language of school history: the role of linguistics in mapping the writing demands of the secondary school curriculum Journal Article How to cite: Coffin, Caroline (2006). Learning the language of school history: the role of linguistics in mapping the writing demands of the secondary school curricu...

The Open University ’ s repository of research publications and other research outputs Developing creative learning through possibility

The Open University ’ s repository of research publications and other research outputs Developing creative learning through possibility thinking with children aged 3 - 7