Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) are creating a center of attention in the domain of e-learning. Due to rapid advancements in technology, the PLEs also have absorbed rich features of many modern technologies i.e. blogs, social networking and multimedia streaming (Sclater, 2008). Currently, a PLE is an e-learning system that provides access to a variety of other learning resources. The major traits of a good PLE system are as follows.
Learning very much depends on personal satisfaction. If a person is not satisfied with his/her learning environment then such a situation directly demerits the learning. Personal satisfaction is the combination of individual preferences and dis/liking.
As it is clear from its name, the personalization is the key of any good PLE system. A learner should be able to shape the PLE in such a way that can adjust individual preferences. These preferences depend on individual dis/liking and if a PLE is dynamic enough to shape itself to satisfy these preferences then the learning curve of users improve significantly (Wilson et al., n.d.).
Personalization includes many useful features and some of them include:
Dynamic layout of PLE components where user can change the arrangement of components as per his/her preferences;
Changeable color scheme for components where user can specify the color scheme of components as per his/her liking;
Dis/Enabling extra features where user can dis/enable extra features of the PLE as per his/her need.
Due to the emergence of Web 2.0, the personalization of PLEs has become much trivial. All modern PLEs support the dynamic personalization.