Digital Skills for Building and Using Personal Learning Environments

Abstract

In the competitive worldwide reality, there is a need for lifelonglearning. People need to continuously learn new knowledge, acquirenew skills, and adapt to new situations. PLEs could supportthis continuous learning necessity. However, the learner shouldhave specific digital skills for PLE development and management.This paper addresses these needed digital skills. Initially, the paperintroduces a PLE model to present how the learner uses applicationsto access and manage resources in order to develop his/herPLE. Then, it describes the stages that the learner follows in orderto collect, manage, develop, and share resources as well as communicateand collaborate with others in his/her PLE. Finally, the paperpresents the digital skills needed by the learner in order to developand manage a PLE.