Personal Learning Network: A powerful Tool for Professional Development (original) (raw)
Personal (or professional) Learning Networks (PLN) were developed and maintained in many organizations as a part of their strategy to equip the employees with up-to-date knowledge cropped up in the field of interest. These PLNs may be of a group of persons or professionals with low or high level expertise in the field who are linked together through physical communications, interactions and organized gatherings. There is a flow of information or intelligence inside the network and the benefit goes to each member. The trend has gained momentum in the second half of the last decade with the emergence of social media as the main ecosystem where it becomes possible to connect the least knowledgeable individual with the most intelligent of the lot. How a library professional could gain from this influx of access points heaped up around him? Why it is crucial to develop one’s Online Personal Learning Network as part of his/her lifelong independent learning to keep up with the instant changes happens in the field? This paper seeks to address these questions by studying the working PLN model developed by the author.
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