WomensLearningStudio

Pinterest collection of personal learning network elements, resources, etc. by Eric Sheninger

Online template for developing a personal learning plan. Although k-12 focused, it is a good template for creating a PLP

Ofsted good practices database on individual learning plans. This plan has 6 action steps. It is in a MSWord format that can be made into a template for use.

Great wiki to help build a personal learning network. Has FAQs, steps, 5 top tools, getting started

Women having been knocking at the gates of men's power for decades. But while the gates may be open, the number of women reaching top positions of power is disappointingly low.

Last month was National Women's Small Business Month - one of the fastest growing segments of the small business community. Today, about 30 percent of small businesses are owned by women, compared to about 5 percent in 1970 - that's 7.8 million businesses growing at twice the growth rate of men-owned businesses.

A client of mine is closing in on his 61st birthday - He's a baby boomer. He's also embarking on an amazing journey, leaving a sort-of safe corporate job to jump back into the start-up pool. Risky? You bet. But informing his decision is the knowledge that he is a [...]

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Types of online learning communities include e-learning communities (groups interact and connect solely via technology) and blended learning communities (groups utilize face-to-face meetings as well as online meetings). Based on Riel and Pollin (2004), intentional online learning communities may be categorized as knowledge-based, practice-based, and task-based.

In October I released my new Performance-Values Assessment and invited readers (from my blog, Twitter , Facebook , and LinkedIn ) to respond. The initial responses are in. Last week's post began our look at this data; this post continues that analysis. In addition, I present recommendations for boosting the health and effectiveness of your organization's culture.

Excellent post on helping clients define what they want: do it on purpose with new clients; demand benchmarks, describe assignment, restate the problem again...

Compelling blog post by Stephen Downes on free vs. not free resources, especially the distinctions made by educational institutions and OERs, November 27, 2012

Social media's erosion of ability to concentrate and investigate in-depth, based in part on Nicholas Carr's book vs. Stephen Johnson's take on new technology's impact, relates to attention--focusing

Harold Jarche blog, 11.16.12 Excerpt: summary by participant of keynote that Harold delivered in Denmark "Moving from local to global We live in a less barriered world: self-publication, group forming across the world, unlimited information. In the past we linked up with people with similar interests locally, due to simply physical realities… now we can link up with people from around the world. So from a learning perspective our learning group grows (personal addition: this also means that the group that lives inside the personal zone of proximal development grows, as more people can potentially be in this). Groupforming is now becoming networks. This has an effect on mentorship: per mentor you can only have so many learners, but with the growing group more mentors can stand up and the learners themselves can become mentors."

"Enrolling in MOOCs has a lot to do with what drives me, and what I think drives most adult learners: the desire to understand, to know and to increase personal competency." Organic learning communities are replacing formal lectures. Self-discovery coupled with peer-to-peer interaction, sharing and co-learning is transforming the learning landscape

Love how they took the comments from individuals to make this manifesto poster. Beautiful, isn't it?

Individual/Organization barriers to learning graphic

PLN graphic

Blog post on MOOC on PLN, PLE, etc.

Presentation by Elyse Eidman-Aadahl on CoPs for professional learning,