Having saddled myself with the agile learning term, one of the hazards I can’t complain about is having to explain it: What does it really mean? What’s different about it? What’s agile about it. There’s a working definition of the key elements on the agile learning wiki, which I continue to develop slowly and sporadically. […]
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Notes on Emergent Learning
As part of updating the wiki on agile learning, I’ve been reading up on Emergent Learning. As long ago as 2004, Michael Feldstein was arguing that “Emergent Learning” is an oxymoron. In brief, his argument was that the term was being used very loosely to describe any circumstance where learning emerges as a by-product of […]
School it Yourself: Review of The Edupunks’ Guide and How to Set Up a Free School
We’re in one of those periods when real change in education might be possible. This doesn’t happen very often. Here’s why. Education is probably the single most powerful means by which our societies and our cultures reproduce themselves — institutions, values, character and differentials… the works. Hence the number of interest groups with a stake […]
Round-up of recent writing in other places
Agile learning: How ‘making do’ can evolve into ‘making good’ is my latest attempt at developing and honing what I mean by agile learning and why it’s important. Written for the newsletter of the Association for Learning Technology, it’s aimed at the ALT constituency which is mostly people in Higher and Further Education along with […]
Do we need an agile learning community of practice?
Here’s are the slides for the presentation I gave last Friday at the Be Bettr conference. Agile Learning community of practice View more presentations from davidjennings. Click through to the slideshare page to read the speaker notes for each slide. From my position on the stage, I didn’t feel that the delivery was my finest […]
Unplugged! The Agile Learning newspaper
Here are the copies of the Agile Learning newspaper, of which I took delivery this afternoon. You can read the full text at the foot of this post, after the links which augment the physical version of the newsletter, including the unabridged versions of the interviews. If you’d like to keep in touch and find […]
Can we make a newspaper about self-organised learning?
I’m still digesting the eight interviews I’ve done on these pages in recent months under the Agile Learning banner. (I know, I know: if I haven’t digested them yet, how must you feel?) A few kind souls say there’s some valuable stuff in them, and a handful have even taken on the challenge of producing […]
Tony Hall on teaching by not teaching
This is one of a series of interviews I’m doing on the theme of Agile Learning. See also interviews on agile learning and agile technology, hands-on alternatives to factory learning, learner-generated contexts, home schooling, peer-to-peer learning in the enterprise and creating the School of Everything. Tony Hall takes photographs and makes photomovies. At the same […]
Ollie Nørsterud Gardener: an entrepreneur’s vision of peer-to-peer learning in organisations
This is one of a series of interviews I’m doing on the theme of Agile Learning. See also interviews on agile learning and agile technology, hands-on alternatives to factory learning, learner-generated contexts, home schooling and creating the School of Everything. Can social networks be environments for real learning? What would happen if you tried to […]
Resilience and scaling down in the face of decline (Dougald Hine discussion, part 2)
This is one of a series of interviews I’m doing on the theme of Agile Learning. See also interviews on agile learning and agile technology, hands-on alternatives to factory learning, learner-generated contexts, home schooling, peer-to-peer learning in the enterprise and creating the School of Everything. With hindsight, it was surprising that the first part of […]