DANIEL R. CONN
UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO
EDF 787
Introduction
The digital capabilities students and teachers now have access to have shifted the traditional constraints of learning environments and learner centeredness.
As Hakkinen and Hamalainen (2012) observed:
"One example of the realization of learner-centeredness is the concept of a personal learning environment (PLE) that has emerged as a topical research and development issue (Attwell, 2007 and Wilson et al., 2007). A PLE is an environment where people and communities, and tools and resources, interact flexibly. In addition to the emphasis on learner-centeredness, the aim of a PLE is to offer personalized, customized, and modular solutions to integrate personal and shared learning spaces" (p. 233).
This field research project hopes to capture the phenomenon of a new pedagogical designed, “flipped learning”, and its impact on personal learning space through the lens educational criticism (Eisner, 1979; Eisner 1985; Eisner 1994).