The presentation at the Enhancing Teaching & Learning Conference, Kansas City MO
The defining feature of the PLN is that it is a global learning network, enabling people to tap into and share their perspectives on issues and their best practices If takes time and effort to build these connections, but it’s well worth the effort. The author discusses digital social networking and curation tools that help to build PLN
3. It is clearly difficult for some, who see themselves as the
gatekeepers of learning, to understand that they can no
longer control everything that people learn (J. Hart)
Theories and approaches
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Social Learning (Bandura & Vygotsky)
Situated learning (J. Lave and E. Wenger)
Networked learning
Connected Learning
Manifestations
• Personal Learning Environments
http://www.colloquia.net/
• Personal Learning Networks
http://edupln.ning.com/
4. Obstacle 1: Information
overload
2008 - The average American consumes 33 gigabytes of content and 100,000
words of information in a single day (Leo Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” is only
460,000 words long)
2012 - 63 gigabytes per person per day
New media consumption
• Only 1/3 of
consumption, but
grows quickly
• interactive, timedelayed, multi-tasking
and interrupted
viewership
HMI Report/UC San Diego; USC
Marshall School of Business
http://www.marshall.usc.edu/faculty/centers/ctm/res
earch/how-much-media
13. Scott Leslie, PLE Diagram
Map of learning activity patterns, from JISC CETIS
PLE Report wiki, - http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/Ple/Report
15. Social networking sites for faculty
Epernicus
A place for members of
scientific communities to
showcase their backgrounds
and expertise
Profology
A free social network allows HigherEd faculty, staff
and administrators to connect and collaborate.
Online community builder,
bookmarking tool and organizer
16. @courosa · 6h
A few
resources from
Today’s session
on PLNs can be
found at
http://couros.ca
/x/rftloi #rftloi
Twitter
20. Faculty Survey
1)
1. Have you seen the benefits of a PLN for your
professional growth?
2) 2. What is your favorite social learning tool?
3) 3. What is one resource or tool you've learned about on
social media sites that has been a game changer for
you at work?
4) 4. Do you have any concerns about using social media
for your learning?
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/88MFK5V
22. References
Bandura, A. (1977). Social learning theory. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Hart, J. (2013). Throw your padlocks away. E.Learning Age, 20-21.
Richardson, W., & Mancabelli, R. (2011). Personal learning networks: Using the power
of connections to transform education. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree
Press.
Siemens, G. (2008). Learning and knowing in networks: Changing roles for educators
and designers. Retrieved from
www.ipcp.org.br/References/Education/Siemens.pdf on June 23, 2011.
Notas del editor
Will Richardson defines personal learning networks (PLN) as “the collection of people with whom youengage and exchange information. They are the group of people who contribute to your knowledgeand understanding of topics in your field and beyond.” (www.nercomp.org/data/media/PLNTraining_OutlineWIT.pdf) He explains, “Personal Learning Networks extend your learning through increasedreflection, while enabling you to learn as part of a global community. That’s not to say thatface-to-face learning isn’t important or valuable. It is. But so is the learning we can now do on theWeb.
At its simplest, situated learning is learning that takes place in the same context in which it is applied the term is coined by Lave and Wenger (1991)