Ecto Online Learning Environment
Ray Sims,
Sims Learning Connections,
May 23, 2007
Is Ecto a Personal Learning Environment? It claims to be, on its home page: "Ecto is a hosted, open networked Personal Learning Environment. Use Ecto to transform learning into an interactive, collaborative, and student centered activity." Ecto, of course, began life three years ago as a learning management system (LMS). I have it a quick workout, but I don't see anything really PLEish about it. It's a way to retrieve remote content, sure, but item by item - and I had to cut and paste the Flickr URL. It allows for the creation of groups, but is no different that dozens of services in that. And, most of all, it's hosted - all your 'network' activity happens on one sites, with no suggestion that you can be part of the network without being part of Ecto.
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