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title: "Learning Networks and Professional Development"
date: 2009-02-11
url: https://learningischange.com/2009/02/11/learning-networks-and-professional-development/
author: Ben Wilkoff
categories: ["Uncategorized"]
tags: []
---

# Learning Networks and Professional Development

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I am in the process of putting together a presentation that will be used to convince others that Learning Networks are a feasible and healthy part of a [professional development](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_development) plan. I have to make sure that it is concrete enough to be realistic but theoretical enough to apply to all stakeholders and in all learning situations.

While, I understand how learning networks function, they are incredibly hard to explain. I have tried using this presentation, though, and I am looking for any feedback possible. I mean, how can I show the value of a learning network in a presentation without getting feedback from a network that I am trying to emulate in all of my professional development, right?

[Professional Learning Networks](http://www.slideshare.net/bhwilkoff/professional-learning-networks?type=powerpoint) View more [presentations](http://www.slideshare.net/) from [bhwilkoff](http://www.slideshare.net/bhwilkoff). (tags: [ple](http://slideshare.net/tag/ple) [pln](http://slideshare.net/tag/pln))

I will be adding a video component to this piece (explaining the presentation), but my wife is lying next to me asleep and I don’t think she would look to highly on me getting out my headset and rattling off about learning networks.

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