The Development of Personal Learning Environments in Higher Education: Promoting Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learner Autonomy

The Development of Personal Learning Environments in Higher Education explores how today’s knowledge-based, learner-centered virtual platforms, which often limit teaching to a complimentary facilitation role, can compromise with the requirements and regulations of colleges and universities. Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) driven by culturally responsive teaching and learner autonomy represent a shift in the higher education paradigm, but how can scholars, designers, administrators, and faculty ensure effective, institutionally compatible construction and management of these systems? This book offers forward-thinking insights into the variety of student-centered learning interactions, particularly culturally and linguistically responsive pedagogies, that can be integrated into PLEs. Attending to quality assessment rubrics, the nuances of stakeholders’ needs, and theoretically sound frameworks, these cross-cultural, interdisciplinary chapters explore how leaders, instructors, technologists, and learners can form a precise yet flexible ecosystem to fully realize PLEs in which co-created, intercultural narratives yield rich, relevant digital learning experiences.

Table of Contents:
Section I: Understanding PLEs 1. Concepts and Theoretical Framework of Culturally Responsive Teaching Guided PLEs 2. Social Changes & Emerging Technologies Driving PLEs Section II: PLEs and Academic Administration in Higher Education 3. Convergence Challenges of PLEs with Higher Education 4. PLEs and Educational Equity: What Can Academic Administration Do? Appendix A: Academic Administration Assessment Scales of PLEs Section III: PLEs, CRT Teacher and Teaching in Higher Education 5. CRT Approaches and Teacher Readiness for PLEs by Yilin Sun & Xiaoshu Xu 6. PLEs Course Design (Culturally Responsive Universal Design for Learning) 7. PLEs and Personalized Learning for Students and Teachers Appendix B: Teacher and Teaching Assessment Scales of PLEs Section IV: PLEs, Learner and Learning in Higher Education 8. Learning Experience in PLEs by Jia Liu and Ci Zhang 9. Understanding PLEs Through Metacognition, Self-Regulation, and Learner Autonomy Appendix C: Leaner and Learning Assessment Scales of PLEs Section V: PLEs, Lifelong Learning and Technologies in Higher Education 10. PLEs and Lifelong Learning by Laura Holland 11. Approaches of PLEs Implementation in Higher Education Appendix D: ICT Assessment Scales of PLEs Appendix E: Technological and Life-long Learning Assessment Scales