Abstract: Personal learning environments (PLEs) comprise a new kind of learning technology which aims at putting learners into centre stage, i.e. by empowering them to design and use environments for their learning needs and purposes. Setting a PLE approach into practice, however, is not trivial at all, as the proposed end-users have varying attitudes and experiences in using ICT in general and PLE software in particular. Here, practice sharing could be an enabler for increasing the usefulness and usability of PLE solutions. In this paper we examine the relevant issues of capturing and sharing ‘good practices ’ of PLE-based, collaborative activities. By good practices we refer to learning experiences provided by learners for a networked community. Moreover, we introduce the concept of a pattern repository as a backend service for PLEs which should, in the sense of community approaches like Last.fm, support PLE users in applying learning tools for their activities. Finally, we present a preliminary prototype and argue for the advantages of such a practice sharing infrastructure with respect to community literature, experiences, and an internal evaluation study.

Abstract. Information on epistemic beliefs has the potential to enrich feedback to students and teachers, through open learner modelling (OLM). We outline existing OLM applications with epistemic content and ways in which more holistic aspects of learning and development (epistemic beliefs, values, identity cognition etc.) may extend OLM for 21 st Century learning. We propose three steps to extend epistemic network analysis to provide an OLM which contains epistemic beliefs. Keywords: Open Learner Modelling. Epistemic Beliefs. 1