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A Personal Learning Network (PLN) is an informal learning network that consists of the people a learner interacts with and derives knowledge from in a personal learning environment. In a PLN, a person makes a connection with another person with the specific intent that some type of learning will occur because of that connection.
The Association for Experiential Education, or AEE, is a nonprofit, professional membership association that promotes experiential education. [1] Currently based in St. Petersburg, Florida, USA, it was founded in the early 1970s in Boone, North Carolina by a group of educators who believed that the core of learning is enhanced by experiential forms of education.
Will Richardson is an author and speaker on educational technology. [1] He has many published works, including the book, Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms, [2] and the edublog Weblogg-ed which he wrote from 2001 to 2011. [3]
The Florida Distance Learning Consortium FDLC is a network of all public (39) and private (27) post secondary institutions in Florida serving a total of 1.3 million students annually. These institutions range in size from fewer than 2000 to over 100,000 students.
The use of the term "personalized learning" dates back to at least the early 1960s, [1] but there is no widespread agreement on the definition and components of a personal learning environment. [2] Even enthusiasts for the concept admit that personal learning is an evolving term and doesn't have any widely accepted definition. [3]
In this seminal text, mostly referred to by architects, lists a "Network of Learning" as the 18th pattern, [7] and cites Illich's earlier book as "the most penetrating analysis and proposal for an alternative framework for education." Alexander et al. go on to advise builders and town planners interested in establishing learning networks with:
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A social learning network (SLN) is a type of social network that results from interaction between learners, teachers, and modules of learning. [1] The modules and actors who form the SLN are defined by the specific social learning process taking place. [2] The set of learners and the set of teachers in an SLN cannot be disjoint.