Mapping Students’ Informal Learning Using Personal Learning Environment

  • Jelena Anđelković Labrović University of Belgrade, Faculty of Organizational Sciences
  • Aleksandar Bijelić Prova – Management Consulting Company
  • Gordana Milosavljević University of Belgrade, Faculty of Organizational Sciences

Abstract

Personal learning environments are a widely spared ways of learning, especially for the informal learning process. The aim of this research is to identify the elements of studens’ personal learning environment and to identify the extent to which students use modern technology for learning as part of their non-formal learning. A mapping system was used for gathering data and an analysis of percentages and frequency counts was used for data analysis in the SPSS. The results show that students’ personal learning environment includes the following elements: Wikipedia, Google, YouTube and Facebook in 75% of all cases, and an interesting fact is that all of them belong to a group of Web 2.0 tools and applications.

Author Biographies

Jelena Anđelković Labrović, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Organizational Sciences

Jelena Anđelković Labrović is teaching assistant at the Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade, Human Resource Management Department. She teaches the following courses: Training and Development, E-Learning, Human Resource Management and International Human Resource Management. She is the author and/or co-author of more than 20 papers published in journals and conference proceedings.

Aleksandar Bijelić, Prova – Management Consulting Company

Aleksandar Bijelic is a partner of the Prova – Management Consulting Company. From 2004 to 2011, he was the Head of Organization and business process and IT at Merkur International d.o.o. Serbia. He worked as an Associate at A.T. Kearney in 2011, and led the top IT Company in Serbia through organizational transformation and restructuring in 2012. During 2013 he worked on restructuring and opening of gas transportation market in Serbia on a project led by the Boston Consulting Group. He received his B.S. and master degrees from the Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade. He completed his Executive Marketing Education at London Business School in 2008. He is currently a PhD candidate at FOS and a guest lecturer as Sales Management and Key Account Management courses.

Gordana Milosavljević, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Organizational Sciences

Prof.dr Gordana Milosavljević Ph.D. is full professor at the Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade. Her field of interest is education, e-learning and training management. She was an author or coauthor in more than 50 research papers and she published six books in field of training management. She is head of the Center for Human Resource Management at the Faculty of Organizational Sciences.

Published
2014-07-14
How to Cite
Anđelković Labrović, J., Bijelić, A., & Milosavljević, G. (2014). Mapping Students’ Informal Learning Using Personal Learning Environment. Management:Journal Of Sustainable Business And Management Solutions In Emerging Economies, 19(71), 73-80. doi:10.7595/management.fon.2014.0009
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