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The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network

Allison Rossett

Educators today are pursuing professional development by building their very own Professional (or Personal) Learning Networks (PLNs). A PLN is “a system of interpersonal connections and resources that support informal learning” (Trust, 2012). An Educator’s Professional Learning Network. What is a PLN?

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The Connected Educator: Building a Professional Learning Network

Allison Rossett

Educators today are pursuing professional development by building their very own Professional (or Personal) Learning Networks (PLNs). A PLN is “a system of interpersonal connections and resources that support informal learning” (Trust, 2012). An Educator’s Professional Learning Network. What is a PLN?

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Pick of the Month: June 2012 – Informal learning, Yammer, collab platforms, change, and keep learning

Jane Hart

You can find more of the resources I enjoyed during the month in my 2012 Reading List.). 1 – Informal Learning. Informal Learning continued to be a dominant theme through June. Clark Quinn, (6 June) started us off with a post: Getting pragmatic about informal. Put on your crap detectors.

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eLearning Cyclops: Cool Tools to Liven Up The Classroom

eLearning Cyclops

Twitter Yammer Storify (create stories using social media) Video - Create your own video and post it, find relevant videos already out there, and/or get your learners to make and share their own video. ► 2012. (6). Informal learning. Maybe I Can Informally Assess. Delicious Digg Diigo Linkpad.me

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What Can You Expect in 2013?

CLO Magazine

Embracing apps: According to ABI Research, 36 billion apps were downloaded in 2012, and 136 billion will be downloaded by 2017. Despite this trend, most corporations have been slow to deploy mobile learning, and even fewer consider adopting learning apps.

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Bob Little – Crystal Balling with Learnnovators

Learnnovators

Its research is used by Governments to inform economic policy; by universities and education establishments; by journalists; by investors evaluating new opportunities and by other research organisations. Online learning has grown by displacing more traditional training programmes.

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The Other 90% of Learning

Jay Cross

This appears in the August 2012 CLO magazine. Knowledge workers learn three to four times as much from experience as from interaction with bosses, coaches, and mentors. They learn about twice as much from those conversations compared to structured courses and programs. Serving enterprise customers.