Agile Learning update (test to me only)
David Jennings
You're receiving this email because you completed the Agile Learning
survey at http://www.surveygizmo.com/s/254185/agile-learning at some
point in the last six weeks and indicated there that you'd like to
receive invitations to our programme of meet-ups and online groups.
Thank you! If you've forgotten the background to this, please see
http://alchemi.co.uk/archives/ele/agile_learning_.html
We've got some really useful feedback from your survey responses
already, and when we've got input from a wider reach of people, we'll
be sharing the results in full.
However, thanks to a combination of my own personal circumstances and
minor organisational hiccups, it's taking longer than I'd hoped to
build up some momentum in making people aware of the collective
activity that we're trying to catalyse under the Agile Learning title.
Sharing
You can help with this in several ways:
1. encourage your colleagues to complete the survey at
http://is.gd/d0F7K - blog about it, tweet it, share it any way you can
2. follow http://twitter.com/agilelearn, send stuff our way, and
retweet where you feel moved to do so...
3. 'like' the Facebook page at http://is.gd/d0Fag and share stuff
from there on your own feed
4. tell me what we'd need to do to establish Agile Learning on your
favourite social media platform, and (ideally) how you can help do
this
Meet-ups
In terms of meet-ups, my plan has been to kick off with some
face-to-face meetings - almost certainly in London, England - and
hope that those work as a springboard both for choosing an online
social platform and for energising that platform. Realistically, with
the summer break fast approaching (here in the northern hemisphere!),
it's unlikely that a 'serious' programme will get under way until
September.
However, that need not prevent agile, lightweight interim get
togethers! I've been taking part in fairly regular meet-ups on
Wednesdays in London with the School of Everything
(http://is.gd/d0FdG) and The Learning Co-op (http://is.gd/d0Fhs). Let
me know if you'd like to come to one of these, and I'll pass on the
details. In fact, if you fancy a drink by the river this evening,
we're meeting at the National Theatre bar (http://is.gd/d0Fpl)!
If you want to start Agile Learning meet-ups in your own area - or,
perhaps more likely, add discussion of Agile issues to something
you're already doing - go ahead and do it. No one needs permission.
If you let me know, I'll pass it on in the most appropriate and
targeted way I can.
Interviews
To keep the discussion building over the summer, I'm planning a
series of interviews where people with interesting perspectives on
Agile Learning elaborate those perspectives. Gradually we build
towards shared understandings and meanings.
The idea is that to keep the load on interviewees as low as possible
- maybe 10 minutes in an initial chat with me, followed by 30 minutes
or so of more structured discussion, which I record on Skype and then
write up. For the moment, these interviews will appear on my blog.
You can read the first of these - with Dick Moore, formerly of
learndirect - at http://is.gd/d0Gpp
Who else do you think I should interview? Very probably you could
yourself provide some useful insights... so if you'd be willing to
talk to me at some point over the next few months, please let me know.
Admin etiquette
To send this message, I have created a Google Group at
http://groups.google.com/group/agilelearning At the moment this is
set up so that only administrators can send to it. We could, sooner
or later, make this a discussion group so that you could all send to
each other. Let me know if you have strong feelings either way on
this. (The original invitation to receive update emails promised a
low volume of messages, so we have to bear that in mind.)
Many thanks for reading (or skimming...) this far. I'll be in touch
again when there is more to report, but please don't wait to hear
from me if you've got anything you'd like to discuss.
All tbe best,
David Jennings
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