Building your personal learning networks Annette Thain Knowledge

Building your personal learning networks Annette Thain Knowledge Services NHS Education for Scotland November 2015

Personal learning networks Solving problems together Finding people Social learning Tacit knowledge Knowledge from experience Sharing Communication Local context

Personal Learning Networks

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Co-creation of knowledge Social networking – face to face person to person knowledge exchange or using technology Peer assist reviews Also known as ‘learning before doing. ’ A team asks for help: people are invited to share their experience, insights and knowledge with the team. After action reviews Tends to be aofspirit of reciprocity A short, facilitated meeting project where would be team members (and people possiblycontributing other to request from the others stakeholders) able to evaluate andhelp capture to work theirtowards own team’s issues lessons learned. Oftenonused Knowledge cafes the end of a project but it may also be An informal to stimulate and between create usedmethod at the transition points ‘awakening andphases. engaging of collective intelligence project through conversations about questions that matter’. It is a technique to evoke and make visible the collective intelligence of a group.

Knowledge into Action

Grey literature eg local reports, stats Literature searches eg Medline People and experienc e Evidence and local context Librarians to help Searching and synthesis Actionable knowledge Social use of knowledge Social interaction and social learning Knowledge into Action Knowledge in actionable formats

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