INNOVATIVE PERSONAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT AS A MEDIATOR FOR CROSS-BORDER EDUCATION EXPORTS AND SKILL DEVELOPMENT

This article reports how Personal Learning Environments (PLE) can act as a facilitator for education exports between Finland and India. This paper results from the Eurostars project "TRIBA", the world's first online social learning platform utilizing Smart Learning Data. First, this article introduces how the educational landscape is moving towards self-directed learning and how technology is shaped by structural demands of society. Then, it describes key factors that drive the development of the E-learning market in India. Next, it discusses the challenges and drawbacks of using MOOCS (Massive Open Online Course), and how PLE attempt to solve these by structuring the learning environment. After that, it describes the methodological approach. Then it introduces the main findings related to requirements, usage, possibilities, and challenges of PLE providers entering the Indian market. Finally it draws the conclusions.