Having taken a few soundings — and please complete our short Agile Learning survey if you haven’t already, as we’re keen to get a broader input — the first meetups are under way in London. In fact, this isn’t so much a new activity, as an evolution and gentle morphing of an existing one. More […]
Agile Learning is what you do when you have to ‘make do’
We’ve known for decades that we need to keep learning throughout our careers. See the lifelong learning movement, for example. But either creating or doing a course is too big an overhead for many learning needs. Since the web arrived, we’ve grown to use it as a just-in-time performance support system. As Dick Moore put […]
Fred Garnett on how to create new contexts for your own learning
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, home schooling, social, self-organised learning in the enterprises and creating the School of Everything. I kept coming across Fred Garnett’s name so often in my […]
Elaborating on Agile Learning
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, social, self-organised learning in the enterprises and creating the School of Everything. I resist requests to pin down Agile Learning with […]
David Gauntlett on “making is connecting” and the end of factory learning
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, learner-generated contexts, home schooling, social, self-organised learning in the enterprises and creating the School of Everything. The second in the series of Agile Learning interviews is with David Gauntlett, Professor […]
Dick Moore on Agile Learning, Agile Software Development and the Mobile Internet
This is one of a series of interviews I’m doing on the theme of Agile Learning. See also interviews on hands-on alternatives to factory learning, learner-generated contexts, home schooling, social, self-organised learning in the enterprises and creating the School of Everything. Dick Moore was, until a week or two ago, Director of Technology at Ufi/learndirect […]
Agile Learning: better results for less money
Create, adapt, remix your learning to meet your needs — and pay much less That’s the current tagline for an initiative we’re soft launching, with the aim of bringing together people (you?) curious about self-organised learning in commerce, community and education. How can you design and create your own learning experiences — or help your […]
University of Death by Sean McManus: A Review
There’s a pivotal scene in University of Death where the muso-technology geek at the heart of the story struggles to persuade the venal record industry boss to buy-in to a groundbreaking new scheme that will change the industry forever. To accomplish this, the geek plays the boss a new composition, which has been engineered to […]
Counterculture, Cyberculture and Innovation: the strange case of Stewart Brand
A couple of years ago, at the end of this post on the crossover between Web 2.0 and anarchism, I wrote that I’d started reading Fred Turner’s From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network and the Rise of Digital Utopianism, and suggested I might be blogging about some of the ideas in […]
More on self-organised learning
Here’s the next instalment in a ‘slow conversation’ with Seb Schmoller, which kicked off with my post Progressive austerity and self-organised learning, followed by a response from Seb. I think it’s fair to say Seb is more cautious than me so far. He splashes a little cold water on my enthusiasm for things “lightweight” — […]