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Networked learning is at the heart of collaborative capacity building. It occurs where people from different schools in a network engage with one another to enquire into practice, to innovate, to exchange knowledge and to learn together.

A Networked Learning Community (NLC)  is a cluster of schools working in partnership to enhance the quality of pupil learning, professional development, and school-to-school learning.

OECD Definition

Networked Learning Communities are purposefully led social entities that are characterised by a commitment to quality, rigour and a focus on outcomes. They are also an effective means of supporting innovation in times of change. In education, Networked Learning Communities promote the dissemination of good practice, enhance the professional development of teachers, support capacity building in schools, mediate between centralised and decentralised structures, and assist in the process of re-structuring and re-culturing educational organisational systems.

The network of individuals is a Professional Learning Network (PLN)-any group who engages in collaborative learning with others outside of their everyday community of practice; with the ultimate aim of improving outcomes for children (Brown & Poortman, 2018).