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PLN or CoP?

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In the context of this post, PLN stands for Personal Learning Network , and CoP stands for Communities of Practice. In CoPs, connections are generally more deliberate, focused upon practice, often of a professional nature, and the interactions are focused largely upon the shared business of that community of practice.

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Learning comes first

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There are numerous examples of technology reshaping educational practices and creating new opportunities for the sharing of knowledge. Photo by JISC Learning comes first by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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Mapping mobile learning

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Whether it is navigating your way around the streets of an unfamiliar city or communicating with work colleagues, mobile devices provide an added, and almost always, new dimension to daily routine. What will happen if your school or business ignores the huge potential of these tools to promote learning? Unported License.

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Our digital future 4: Pervasive computing

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New and emerging embedded systems such as iBeacon might perform this kind of activity tracking, but might also be used to enhance communications across campus, and within communities of practice. Pervasive computing is already being deployed in business, entertainment and sport. Unported License. Unported License.

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Tracking sentiments

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Many large business do this now, because they want to know what is being said about their brand. They want to know how a complaint in a public forum can have negative high impact on their business if it's not dealt with effectively. But sentiment tracking can also be harnessed positively by businesses. Unported License.

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Global digital tribe

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If you are immersed in technology mediated communication, there are no apparent barriers to membership of your community of practice. It is your virtual community. It is tribal because the global online community exhibits many of the characteristics of traditional, territorial tribal practice.

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The future is not here yet

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You can literally tap into any community of practice that you are interested in and find people who are very clever and knowledgeable and get almost instant answers from them. In one sense there are huge differentials between how people use technology to learn to connect with each other, to communicate, to do commerce or business.