Peeragogy In Action #12: Opening Education

02/16/22 • 46 min

Is it time to rethink how we acquire knowledge at the various stages of life? Join us to discuss “Opening Education” on the Peeragogy In Action livestream/podcast Tues., January 25 at 2pm UTC-5. Any comments or questions you post on the simulcast channels, we will be able to present to our panelists.

Peeragogy editorial board member Joe Corneli of Oxford Brookes University moderates the discussion with Peter Shukie, founder of Community Open Online Courses and contributor to the recent Working Class Academics conference; and David Preston, open & alternative education advocate and Peeragogy Handbook v3 contributor.Top-down instruction remains the typical model in traditional education. Teachers create subject lessons for pupils that are divided into chapters, units, and lessons. Students display their mastery via assignments, exams, essays, and projects.

As David Preston writes, “Open-source education invites us to create meaningful learning experiences with students instead of for them. We all begin our lives insatiably curious about the world around us, so what can we do to reawaken that sense of delight in wondering? For years I have begun the conversation with students by reimagining the power of the question and asking them to consider one of their own.”

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Peeragogy In Action #11: Effective Organizing in Peer Ecosystems

What is Peeragogy? It’s been explained as the “art and science of collaboration,” or “the no-longer-missing guide to peer learning & peer production.”

Host Pete Forsyth of Wiki Strategies and Leo Vivier of Org Roam tease out peeragogical patterns in free software and community organizing. They zoom in on how people coordinate actions in large, decentralized projects and how to run fun, friendly conferences.

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HOST: Pete Forsyth, founder, Wiki Strategies
EPISODE PRODUCER: Joseph Corneli, The Peeragogy Project; Oxford Brookes University
CREW & TECH: Charlotte Pierce, Lisa MacDonald, The Peeragogy Project

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Peeragogy In Action #13: Causal Layered Analysis

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How can we anticipate and change the negative effects of climate change, terrorism, water scarcity, and aging populations? Causal Layered Analysis may be a method we can use to shape the future in a positive way.

In this episode, we interview Sohail Inayatullah, who developed the discipline of Causal Layered Analysis, and Ivana Milojević, who wrote the first PhD thesis on CLA 20 years ago. Ivana is also the author of The Futures of Education: Pedagogies for an Emergent World.

Members of the Peeragogy Project recently used CLA as one of several tools to support distributed learning and creativity in paper for Pattern Languages of Programs 2021. The paper will also appear in the forthcoming collected volume “CLA 3.0: 30 Years of Transformative and Critical Futures Research.” A preprint of our article is available.

Join us to explore the future of Causal Layered Analysis, and its implications for learning!

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