Personal research and teaching environment

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Definition

A personal research and teaching environment (PRTE) is an environment for research and teaching that is under the control of a researcher/teacher, e.g. a university lecturer.

The PRTR is the equivalent of the personal learning environment (PLE), but PRTEs also can implement participatory learning environments, i.e. let students participate in knowledge construction. A PRTE is not just a scholar's electronic portfolio, but a place to share "stuff" with a community at large and to which it can contribute. In other words we coined this term to describe web-based multi-purpose work environments that are under the control of an individual researcher/teacher.

Tools

Like Personal learning environments, PRTEs can be implemented with a variety of tools, e.g.

• Portalware, e.g. a system like Drupal
• Blogs. Often researchers-teachers will then use more than one blog, e.g. one blog for teaching and another for a given course.
• Wikis, e.g. a Mediawiki like this wiki that is sort of becoming the PRTE of Daniel K. Schneider, e.g. read EduTech Wiki - an all-in-one solution to support whole scholarship?
• Webtops like Pageflakes
• Social networking software, like Ning

Questions

• How to integrated these with institutional websites, e.g. LMSs or campus stystem
• How to work with colleagues that have their own.
• How to articulate teaching with personal learning environments
• How to integrate with various services (including the above, if there are service APIs)

Links

In french

• D. Schneider (2009). Vers l’enseignant-chercheur un peu mieux «intégré» grâce aux PRTE ? (slides of a talk)
• table ronde ISTIL, comment intégrer un scénario pédagogique embarqué. J-P Moiraud (2008).

Examples

• Users of Blogs: Jean-Paul Moiraud's teaching blog and personal blog
• Social software: Educasciences (Laurent Dubois, sciences à l'école primaire.).