Role of Teacher in PLEs - Presented by Zaffar Ahmed Shaikh in "The PLE Conference 2011", held during 11-13 July 2011 University of Southampton, UK.

1. Role of Teacher in PLEs Zaffar Ahmed Shaikh (Presenter), Shakeel Ahmed Khoja, IBA Karachi (Pakistan) The PLE Conference, July 11-13, 2011, Southampton UK

2. Objective Part-I (This Study): To discuss the nature of change required in teachers’ competencies and roles in context of technology mediated communication, and hence, to identify teacher roles in PLE process grouped around competencies. Part-II (Delphi Study): To get validated these results from PLE community / experts / more knowledgeable persons by online Delphi process (All of you are hereby invited to participate in this study that would start from 25th July 2011) 2

3. Introduction 3

4. This shift in pedagogy invite teachers to… 4

5. An effective PLE must address… 5

6. Why should we worry about teacher competencies and roles? 6

7. How we gathered data for this study… 7

8. Teachers’ Roles and Competencies we identified… We have grouped teachers’ competencies around 5 categories and 36 roles according to the nature of tasks they are associated with in students' PLE process 8

9. Teachers’ Roles and Competencies we identified… 9

10. Conclusion and Further Research… 10

11. Thanksfor Your Attention 11