Promoting Personal Learning Environment for Emerging Academic Writing for Publication for Higher Education Students

Abstract

Academic writing for publication in higher education is cognitively and linguistically complex. University students grapple with academic writing for publication because of academic genre/convention, linguistic competence, and academic literacy among others. For this reason, a learning environment does matter. The Personal Learning Environment (PLE) is a learner-controlled environment for language learning. To examine this issue, a qualitative study with an action research design conducted with 28 graduate students as participants. The three main findings: (1) ways of encouraging students to write academic writing for publication through the personal learning environment as a learning platform; (2) implementing PLE's in the academic writing for publication course: content knowledge consideration; and (3) implementing PLE's in the academic writing for publication course: pedagogical consideration. In general, the findings indicate that PLE gives positive impacts on emerging students' academic writing for publication in the context of higher education. The educational organization needs to consider this issue. Keywords: Action research, academic writing for publication, learning autonomy, personal learning environment

A Systematic Review and Trend Analysis of Personal Learning Environments Research

“…Therefore, the present systematic review and trend analysis can become a guidance platform for researchers, educators, policymakers or even journal publishers for future research in PLEs research. The current systematic review is significant and Transformational leadership and constructivism [175] Constructivism [33], [39], [45], [49], [79], [84], [91], [93], [99], [101], [123], [127], [131], [138[, [159] Connectivism & self-regulated learning [75] Self-learning [87], [103], [128], [176] Socio-cultural theory [50] Lifelong learning [125], [151], 161] TAM [61] Connectivism [51], [144], [158] Constructivism & Connectivism [76] Self-Reported Learning [149], [177] Self-directed + Connectivism [53] Lifelong theory [59] Technology-enhanced learning [178] Personal construct theory [179] Technology acceptance models [152] Self-disclosure learning [129] Situated Learning [82] Collaborative learning [106] Constructivism+ Searle"s theory [112] Mobile learning theories [72] Epistemological [180] IX. CONCLUSION indispensable in reviewing journal articles that discussed PLEs between 2000 and 2020.…”

Development and implementation of personal learning environment-based writing for publication scaffolding platform for Ph.D. Students

“…These include short-term publication courses and longer-term writing support groups (Mathew et al, 2006), English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and English for Research Publication Purposes (ERPP) courses (Li & Flowerdew, 2020), one-on-one mentorship (Busse et al, 2022), and multiple source-based writing tasks (Allagui, 2023). Additionally, Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) have been promoted to assist students (Drajati & Wisudawati, 2020). Yet, there remains a scarcity of research on the use of PLEs in scaffolding Ph.D. students' writing for publication.…”