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Personal learning networks for MRPP faculty
The document discusses the importance of personal learning networks (PLNs) for lifelong learning and development, highlighting how they support teaching, research, and engagement. It outlines steps for individuals to assess and intentionally develop their networks through collection, curation, sharing, construction, and collaboration of resources. It also suggests tools and strategies for enriching PLNs and enhancing scholarly work.
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- 1. Personal Learning Networks ProfessorJodi Sandfort University of Minnesota, School of Public Affairs sandf002@umn.edu
- 2. Except where otherwisenoted, this work is licensed under Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
- 3. Changing African Context •23 countries where nearly 2/3rd have mobile phones. • Considerable growth • Country by country prevalence, Gallop poll (2013)
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- 6. Workshop Learning Objectives •Explore how information environment can support your own scholarship – Teaching, Research & Engagement • Assess your own personal learning network • Consider easy ways to “fill in” the gaps
- 7. Personal Learning Networks(PLN) Social and technical networks that individuals’ develop in support of life long learning and personal development
- 8. “Learning is aprocess that occurs within nebulous environments of shifting core elements – not entirely under the control of the individual. Learning (defined as actionable knowledge) can reside outside of ourselves (within an organization or database), is focused on connecting specialized information sets, and the connections that enable us to learn more are more important than our current state of knowing.” George Siemens, (2005) “Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age.”
- 9. Adaptation of Blooms’Cognitive Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, 1956
- 10. Assessing Your LearningNetwork 1) Think about three or four focus areas / topics of your scholarship (your teaching, research & engagement) 2) On paper, place yourself at the center 3) Use different colors, arrange the topics around you 4) Document the people / resources you draw upon to learn about these topics
- 11. Analysis 1) What issurprising? 2) What are areas where you need to enrich your network? 3) How might you do so?
- 12. Intentional Development of PersonalLearning Networ Personal Learning Network Collect & Curate Share Construct Collaborate
- 13. Analysis What are thetools you currently use to: Collect & Curate? Share? Construct? Collaborate?
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- 15. Enriching your OwnPLN Learning Objects…. ….”anything that is set up to constitute or prompt the subject matter of an interactive teaching session.” (Alford & Brock, 2014:2) Collecting & Curating
- 16. Open Educational Resources Freely accessible,openly formatted and licensed media used for teaching, learning, assessment and research
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- 20. Enriching your OwnPLN Share
- 22. Enriching your OwnPLN Construct
- 23. Manage Scholarly Articles& Create Bibliographies
- 24. Create visual engagementfor talks & Lectures
- 25. Enriching your OwnPLN Collaborate
- 26. Enriching your OwnPLN • Time each week to explore and develop new resources • Create diagram (or modify) as you go – provides framework for your own learning tools (to learn more follow this link) • Also teach concept to aid students in policy research
- 27. • Build outyour personal learning network and learn more • Try out tools described • Capture this presentation (including hyperlinks) • Find & Share new ones. Share via Twitter #MRPPlaunch @mrppafrica