Education is the process of facilitating learning, or the acquisition of knowledge, skills, values, morals, beliefs, habits, and personal development.
# Similar initiatives
Marc appears to have strikingly the same structure as the Viral Academy (2012) for how he see's structuring education. It appears to be based on: - Study Circle and - Agile Teaching - Situated Learning
It's worth diving into some detail with regard to the similarities and differences with Marc Piersons approach and the earlier Viral Academy pilots in order to better design the Hitchhiker Academy.
# Small Group Learning > Tend toward "magic number five". Start a class when five students have self-organized. Start a mentor program when five mentors have self-organized. Start an educational program when we have prototypes or starter patterns for five area of curiosity (AOC).
# Agile Learning
Make a backlog list of nominated AOCs. Areas of Curiosity Backlog List
# Situated Learning
> Organize educational approaches by age, stage in life, interests, and opportunities of use.
> Each neighborhood should define education for itself. Define what is to be learned and go about learning it.
# Responsive Learning This is a relatively new finding with long roots. It takes much of the spirit of the above and pushes it to the maximum.
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