Agile learning and agile education

I am trying to find links and resources about applying Agile development methodologies to education and learning. Three years ago (almost to the day) I wrote agile learning – an alternative learning model, and am now really keen to get back into this line of thought in my spare time. If you have any links or . . . → Read More: Agile learning and agile education

I want to help people learn

Back in 2007, I asked myself the following question:

How do you:

meet the individual learning needs of a diverse bunch of learners, and
assess individuals in their mix of individual and group learning in a fair, valid, sustainable way,
all-the-while demonstrating how individuals can themselves set, review and work towards their own learning goals – gradually handing over control of . . . → Read More: I want to help people learn

I am redundant

As of today I am on the road to being redundant.

At the start of every semester I give a spiel to new learners in our class about how one of my main aims is to make myself redundant (as a source of web design and development knowledge). Today a few learners in class politely informed me . . . → Read More: I am redundant

Agile learning – an alternative learning model

Since the 1990′s Agile software development has been evolving as an alternative method of project management for motivating and empowering teams of developers to develop and release great software for customers. But are “agile methodologies” applicable to learning and education? Could they help us learn? The more I learn about and try out agile software development, . . . → Read More: Agile learning – an alternative learning model

3 Hour Full Code Press

In August this year, there’s an event being run by the Australian Web Industry Professionals Association and New Zealands Webstock event called FullCodePress:

It’s a geek Olympics! Web teams take each other on to build a complete website for a non-profit organisation in 24 hours. No excuses, no extensions, no budget overruns.

Wow… what a learning opportunity! Something . . . → Read More: 3 Hour Full Code Press