Online Tools for the Creation of Personal Learning Environments in Engineering Studies for Sustainable Learning

Catalina Rus-Casas, M.Dolores La Rubia, Dolores Eliche-Quesada, Gabino Jiménez-Castillo and Juan D. Aguilar-Peña
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Catalina Rus-Casas: Department Electronics and Automatics Engineering, Campus Las Lagunillas, University of Jaén, 23071 Jaen, Spain
M.Dolores La Rubia: Department of Chemical Environmental and Materials Engineering, Campus Las Lagunillas, University of Jaén, 23071 Jaen, Spain
Dolores Eliche-Quesada: Department of Chemical Environmental and Materials Engineering, Campus Las Lagunillas, University of Jaén, 23071 Jaen, Spain
Gabino Jiménez-Castillo: Department of Electrical Engineering, Campus Lagunillas, University of Jaen, 23071 Jaen, Spain
Juan D. Aguilar-Peña: Department Electronics and Automatics Engineering, Campus Las Lagunillas, University of Jaén, 23071 Jaen, Spain

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 3, 1-18

Abstract: This work describes an educational experience in which personal learning environments (PLEs) were created as a tool for the acquisition of subject contents in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) areas. For this, the same methodology was developed for different subjects in order to teach the use of some digital tools, learn about the concepts related to the PLE, and apply the PLE to educational content promoting sustainable learning. Two questionnaires were designed to obtain information about the tools, activities, and subjects. The results of the questionnaires were analyzed using the Kaiser–Meyer–Olkin test and Pearson’s correlation. Then, several factors and the relationships between them were defined. In addition, this paper shows that because the PLE is based on a learning model in which the learner is the protagonist, its use is linked to sustainable learning. Therefore, the use of PLEs allows the development of the competences of “collaborative work” and “information management and organization”, which are both related to sustainable learning. In addition, the use of PLEs promotes understanding of the subjects and academic results in the subjects.

Keywords: information and communication technologies; ICTs; personal learning environment; PLE; online tools; sustainability learning; STEM areas (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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