Personal Learning Networks and Communities of Practice

by Blair Matthews

We are often guilty of talking about the “next big thing” in teacher development and using unfamiliar acronyms to talk about them. Such fads often tend to fade away eventually. However, one particular acronym has endured: that of the PLN – Personal Learning Network. (more…)

Welcome to the CELFS Pre-Sessional Network

by Gavin Dodsworth

I’m thrilled to have been asked to write the first short entry blog for the CELFS Pre-sessional Tutors Network – I have to be honest, for those of us in the northern hemisphere, the summer seems a fair distance away (there’s a good bit of Bristol drizzle outside as I write this), but I’ve also been around for long enough to know the summer will be with us again before we know it… (more…)