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Using Personal Professional Networks for Learning in Social Work: Need for Insight into the Real-World Context

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Professionals in social work practice depend on a high level of skills, intellectual ability and a wide knowledge base to find innovative solutions for the complex problems they encounter. They learn by experience and through social interaction using dialogue and discussion with relevant others to create new knowledge. To support their learning, they search for the most suitable and most relevant dialogue partner available in their extensive personal professional network. This is a difficult, high-skilled task, for which little technological support is available. This paper presents a literature review on the learning needs of these professionals and considers the use of technology as a means of supporting this type of learning. It argues for the need for more insight into the strategies used by professionals in building, maintaining and activating connections in their personal professional network for learning purposes.

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  1. Centre for Learning Sciences and Technologies (CELSTEC), Open Universiteit, Nederland

    Kamakshi Rajagopal, Desirée Joosten-ten Brinke & Peter B. Sloep

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Rajagopal, K., Joosten-ten Brinke, D., Sloep, P.B. (2010). Using Personal Professional Networks for Learning in Social Work: Need for Insight into the Real-World Context. In: Wolpers, M., Kirschner, P.A., Scheffel, M., Lindstaedt, S., Dimitrova, V. (eds) Sustaining TEL: From Innovation to Learning and Practice. EC-TEL 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6383. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16020-2_56

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