Education For the Masses via Passion and Learning to Learn

I have been talking to a friend about his passion of teaching people to learn how to learn in the wild of the internet, using the many free tools available.  This page is a collection of the links we have been talking about.

One key idea is: activating the library as a platform for online learning.  This story https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/libraries/feedback/activating-the-library-as-a-public-infrastructure-for-online-learning talks about how to get free space to lead the necessary discussions around online classes. P2PU has extensive experience building successful, active, learning communities online (see https://p2pu.org/en/our-work/ for examples), with peer-learning and community two of their core values.

P2PU has a Github project with a template for an online course http://howto.p2pu.org/modules/references/introduction/ that you fork into a new course.

If you want to become web literate, you can look into http://literaci.es/web-literacy-map-v1-5 where the Mozilla community has  a list of the things you need to know to be web literate, in their opinion.

The Design Based Research (DBR) strand is aimed to support junior scholars to use design to bridge research and practice. http://dmlcommons.net/design-research/ has a course in DBR you can join.

One of the leaders in this area is Stephen Downes http://downes.ca/  who works with National Research Council Canada http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/index.html .

The concept of a Personal Learning Record is implicit in this topic.  The government of the UK has facilitated this for persons 14 or more years old at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/learning-records-service-personal-learning-record .

Some of this work is funded by the Knight Foundation.  There is a program director in St. Paul http://www.knightfoundation.org/communities/st-paul/