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Personal Learning Network (PLN) for Faculty
The document discusses personal learning networks (PLNs) and their significance in enhancing professional development, emphasizing the challenges faculty face with social media use in education. It highlights key theories of social and situated learning, while addressing obstacles like information overload and faculty perceptions of social media. The content includes various tools and platforms that support social learning, alongside a faculty survey aimed at understanding the impact of PLNs on professional growth.
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- 1. Personal Learning Network Learning Research OlgaKoz @olgakoz1 www.linkedin.co m/in/olgakoz/ Networking Collaboration
- 2. Overview Social or Informal Learning SocialMedia use by faculty MY PLN Social Media for faculty development
- 3. It is clearlydifficult for some, who see themselves as the gatekeepers of learning, to understand that they can no longer control everything that people learn (J. Hart) Theories and approaches • • • • Social Learning (Bandura & Vygotsky) Situated learning (J. Lave and E. Wenger) Networked learning Connected Learning Manifestations • Personal Learning Environments http://www.colloquia.net/ • Personal Learning Networks http://edupln.ning.com/
- 4. Obstacle 1: Information overload 2008- The average American consumes 33 gigabytes of content and 100,000 words of information in a single day (Leo Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” is only 460,000 words long) 2012 - 63 gigabytes per person per day New media consumption • Only 1/3 of consumption, but grows quickly • interactive, timedelayed, multi-tasking and interrupted viewership HMI Report/UC San Diego; USC Marshall School of Business http://www.marshall.usc.edu/faculty/centers/ctm/res earch/how-much-media
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- 6. Obstacle 2: Facultyperception, attitudes about social media Pearson study Social Media for Teaching and Learning 2013 http://alturl.com/oespe
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- 10. Advantages for online andadjunct faculty
- 11. My PLN Facebook Twitter Mendeley Linkedin Social Learning Center Phinished ResearchGate Scholastica Texthere Google + Academia.edu Ning
- 13. Scott Leslie, PLEDiagram Map of learning activity patterns, from JISC CETIS PLE Report wiki, - http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/Ple/Report
- 15. Social networking sitesfor faculty Epernicus A place for members of scientific communities to showcase their backgrounds and expertise Profology A free social network allows HigherEd faculty, staff and administrators to connect and collaborate. Online community builder, bookmarking tool and organizer
- 16. @courosa · 6h Afew resources from Today’s session on PLNs can be found at http://couros.ca /x/rftloi #rftloi Twitter
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- 20. Faculty Survey 1) 1. Haveyou seen the benefits of a PLN for your professional growth? 2) 2. What is your favorite social learning tool? 3) 3. What is one resource or tool you've learned about on social media sites that has been a game changer for you at work? 4) 4. Do you have any concerns about using social media for your learning? https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/88MFK5V
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- 22. References Bandura, A. (1977).Social learning theory. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. Hart, J. (2013). Throw your padlocks away. E.Learning Age, 20-21. Richardson, W., & Mancabelli, R. (2011). Personal learning networks: Using the power of connections to transform education. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press. Siemens, G. (2008). Learning and knowing in networks: Changing roles for educators and designers. Retrieved from www.ipcp.org.br/References/Education/Siemens.pdf on June 23, 2011.
Editor's Notes
- #2 Will Richardson defines personal learning networks (PLN) as “the collection of people with whom youengage and exchange information. They are the group of people who contribute to your knowledgeand understanding of topics in your field and beyond.” (www.nercomp.org/data/media/PLNTraining_OutlineWIT.pdf) He explains, “Personal Learning Networks extend your learning through increasedreflection, while enabling you to learn as part of a global community. That’s not to say thatface-to-face learning isn’t important or valuable. It is. But so is the learning we can now do on theWeb.
- #4 At its simplest, situated learning is learning that takes place in the same context in which it is applied the term is coined by Lave and Wenger (1991)