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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.
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]
In the later half of the 1990s, open, interactive, situated and networked views of learning were marginalised by educational institutions as they tended to develop or deploy content and practice through proprietary learning management systems (e.g. Blackboard Inc, WebCT), and collaborative work tools such as IBM Lotus Notes/Learning Space and ...
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]
LaaN starts from the learner and views learning as the continuous creation of a personal knowledge network (PKN). [19] Schwebel of Torrens University notes that Connectivism provides a limited account of how learning occurs online. Conceding that learning occurs across networks, he introduces a paradox of change.
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.
Pinkard founded the Digital Youth Network (DYN) in 2006, at the University of Chicago's Urban Education Institute. The project is designed to support "organizations, educators and researchers in learning best practices to help develop our youths’ technical, creative, and analytical skills."
Network of practice (often abbreviated as NoP) is a concept originated by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid. [1] This concept, related to the work on communities of practice by Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger, [2] refers to the overall set of various types of informal, emergent social networks that facilitate information exchange between individuals with practice-related goals.