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Network learning, at the individual level, includes: Personal directed learning - how individuals can use social media for their own (self-directed) personal or professional learning; and Accidental and serendipitous learning - how individuals, by using social media, can learn without consciously realizing it (e.g., incidental or random learning). At its core, network learning is a way to deal with an ever-increasing amount of digital information. It requires an open attitude toward learning and finding new things. Each worker needs to develop individualized processes of filing, classifying and annotating information for later retrieval.

Faculty Voice in Online Education: Enhancing Relationships Between Faculty and Students for Learning Success In an online learning environment, what you say is not as important as how you say it. When your "online voice" positively affects the relationship between faculty and learners, student retention in online education is greatly enhanced. Join us on March 31st for a free webinar that will help you identify your online persona and ways to improve it. You'll learn how to apply an active listening model that strengthens relationships between all members of the online learning community and improves the learning experience, overall. Talking points include: Is your language positive or punitive? What color and font size should you use to communicate? How does your persona come through in teaching?

Openness has not been oversold and that increased openness (of content, teaching/learning, analytics, policy, data, and technology) is really the only path forward for reform. Systems can be closed and blackboxed only once they are working well and the context in which they exist is stable. When everything is in a state of flux, we need opportunities for ideas to collide, innovations to be shared, concepts to be rehashed and mashedup, and iterative improvements to occur. Education today - at all levels - faces the challenge of tremendous change and unstettledness. Rigid systems break in periods of flux.