Education/LearningInTheOpen/Formats

Whatever format or formats we decide on for Learning in the Open courses, they need to be

• well templated to make things easy for local organizers, and
• hackable so people can evolve for local needs or specific audiences

The two most promising concepts so far are:

• Weekend workshop
  • Organized as a mix of short talks, videos and unconference sessions.
  • Participants would produce some concrete local project by the end of the weekend.
  • Would need to be top quality content while at the same time being simple and low-cost like a BarCamp.
• Three-month study group (or longer)
  • Weekly meetings in a coffee shop or similar venue (e.g., public room in library or on campus) where different people lead talks or discussions.
  • Readings and videos offered in between meetings.
  • Participants have assignments or blog for each other.

The long term goal is to have people organize these completely with local resources and no outside funding or help. In the short term, we would probably need to seed things.