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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. PLNs have been described as informal networks of people one specifically interacts with within their personal learning environments. Unported License. Finally, CoPs are usually something you subscribe into.

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Reasons to be blogging. 1 2 3.

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It also encourages me to check the provenance and accuracy of my sources, the status of the information I'm presenting and the copyright status of images and other content I incorporate. Fourthly, blogging gives me a creative outlet for my thinking. Unported License. I don't have to stick to a specific format of writing.

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Knowledge, practice and community

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In this post, I extend this idea into the work Lave did with Etienne Wenger, which has become known as Communities of Practice. The work of Lave and Wenger advances this concept, turning its focus to the people who make up the learning communities we are all a part of.

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A little more conversation

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It is informal by nature and is essentially conversational. This is Learning 2.0 , learning that involves self determined forms of education, the creation of new content, peer production of learning, and of course the widespread sharing of this back into the global community of learning. Unported License.

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Digital learning in organisations

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Although this book is focused on digital technology and future developments for learning in the corporate sector, I believe it still has many facets that educators in all sectors will find interesting, challenging and informative. Unported License. It will contain 11 chapters (12 if you count the extended introduction I have written).

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Instagram, WhatsApp and Learning

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This ‘paragogical’ theory is based on the premise that online networks are sufficiently developed to support user-generated content that can be shared freely and widely [ 55 , 56 ] to inform communities of practice and interest [ 57 ] (‘paragogy’ in this context refers to the conscious practice of peer learning, according to [ 56 ]).

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Content is a tyrant.

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Never before has gaining access to information been so easy. The imminent arrival of widespread 4G broadband and LTE ( Long Term Evolution ) will usher in wider availability to information and push even more data to our mobile devices over the same amount of radio spectrum. Access to information is one thing. Unported License.