FLO MicroCourse: Developing a Personal Learning Network

Join us for a brand-new FLO MicroCourse: Developing a Personal Learning Network (PLN). A PLN is part of lifelong learning to help you develop a community of practice to grow your skills, abilities, and toolbox with peers. This topic builds participants’ digital literacy/learning to become more connected to peer facilitators and keep current on developments and best practices in the context of learning and teaching in post-secondary education. After this one-week course, you will be able to:

  • Describe the benefits of establishing networked connections.
  • Identify a current PLN.
  • Impart strategies for developing and maintaining a current PLN.
  • Pass these strategies on to colleagues and students.
  • Experiment with social media to build a PLN.

While most of the learning will happen asynchronously, optional synchronous sessions are planned for:

  • Monday, January 16, 12:00–1:00 p.m. PT
  • Thursday, January 19, 12:00–1:00 p.m. PT
  • Friday, January 20, 12:00–1:00 p.m. PT

The required participation time is estimated to be eight hours for participants (three hours to complete required activities and five hours for optional activities).

FLO Facilitators:

Gena Hamilton is a Certified Career Development Practitioner and Career Education Coordinator at the University of the Fraser Valley with a passion for learning design and innovation in career education. Ken Harmel is manager of the learning designers in the Teaching and Learning Centre and sessional instructor at the University of the Fraser Valley. Ken’s focus these days is on educational leadership both in the Teaching and Learning Centre and the classroom.

This MicroCourse has a non-refundable registration fee of $25.

Registration is now closed, but if you would like to participate, please email eventreg@bccampus.ca.

This notice is to inform you that this session will be recorded, archived, and made available publicly on BCcampus.ca. By participating in this session, you acknowledge that your participation in this session will be recorded and the recording will be made available openly.