Personal Learning Environments (PLE) in the Academic Achievement of University Students Gallego Arrufat, María Jesús Gámiz Sánchez, Vanesa María Personal Learning Environments (PLE) University students Web 2.0 Higher education The main purpose of this research is to analyze the elements that compose the PLE of pre-service teachers and to determine whether the composition of these environments is related to academic achievement in a course on Information and Communication Technologies in Education. The hypothesis is that a PLE with more components is related to a higher level of performance (higher grade in the course) and thus acts as a predictor of student achievement. A descriptive study is carried out. We analyze the PLE(tools, applications, services, and websites) of 245 university students who are pre-service teachers. The main outcomes and results are: the variability of components is very high, although there is a tendency toward concentration on seven elements and being different according specializations; also the students with a higher number of components in their PLE obtain higher grades. Finally, we draw implications for further research and for improving teachers’ practices. 2015-05-21T10:01:53Z 2015-05-21T10:01:53Z 2014 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Gallego-Arrufat, M.J.; Gámiz-Sánchez, V. Personal Learning Environments (PLE) in the Academic Achievement of University Students. Australian Educational Computing, 29(2): 1-14 (2014). [http://hdl.handle.net/10481/36273] 0816-9020 http://hdl.handle.net/10481/36273 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License Australian Council for Computers in Education (ACCE)