Creating a Personal Learning Network for Yourself and for Your Students

A Personal Learning Network or Personal Learning Environment is a term used to describe a way of organizing and accessing information that helps you do your work. It’s usually applied to those people who work in an information-rich environment where it’s important to keep up with the latest research and where one might be contributing research to the field. Higher Education fits into this perfectly! Creating a PLN/PLE often involves using a variety of online and offline tools that allow you to easily find the information you need. But it’s not just about gathering and accessing information; it’s also about connecting to people and finding ways to discover information through them. In this workshop, we will talk about common ways to create PLN/PLE’s more generally, but we will also look specifically at your current workflow and learn about tools that may help facilitate some aspect of your work that is causing you difficulty. Each participant should come out of the workshop with at least one implementation of a PLN tool. In addition, we will extrapolate from PLE’s for faculty work to creating PLE-like environments for students and how to build classes that help students create their own PLN/PLE’s.

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