Title: Personal information management and learning

Authors: Sharon Hardof-Jaffe; Rafi Nachmias

Addresses: School of Education, Tel Aviv University, P.O. Box 39040, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel. ' School of Education, Tel Aviv University, P.O. Box 39040, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel

Abstract: Students today collect and organise information on a daily basis in their PCs, laptops and mobiles, creating a personal information archive that contains items related to their learning tasks. Personal information management (PIM) is the activities users perform in order to organise the information items in their personal information spaces (e.g., desktops, folders and e-mails). PIM is a new digital literacy which plays a central role when students work on their assignments; therefore, it is important to understand PIM activities in the learning context. The purpose of this article is to raise the main issues in PIM activities within the learning process, to suggest a PIM and learning conceptual framework and to present preliminary findings from the pilot research.

Keywords: personal information management; PIM; information literacy; information organisation; information acquisition; PCs; personal computers; laptops; mobile phones; cell phones; personal information archives; learning tasks; personal information spaces; desktops; folders; e-mail; electronic mail; internet; world wide web; digital literacy; student assignments; learning contexts; Israel; higher education; universities; ground-breaking ideas; technology enhanced learning.

DOI: 10.1504/IJTEL.2011.045453

International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning, 2011 Vol.3 No.6, pp.570 - 582

Received: 06 May 2011
Accepted: 31 Oct 2011
Published online: 26 Feb 2015 *

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