Invisible Learning :: a collaborative book & an online repository
Invisible Learning is a collaborative book & an online repository of ideas for sustainable innovation. Invisible Learning is a project that is open and distributed publically to share and disseminate innovative learning ideas.
The project places special emphasis on learning practices that do not necessarily develop from traditional environments designed for education. These include informal and non-formal modes of education.
Experimental project oriented toward eXploring, eXploiting, and eXporting innovative knowledge. 21st century skills are relevant, regardless of where or how acquired.
EXplore, eXploit and eXport innovative knowledge. Participants will share great ideas about redesigning education to foster sustainable innovation and connect with the people making these changes happen.
Through the development of:
1) a collaborative, printed book;
2) an e-book; and
3) a repository of innovative ideas at www.invisiblelearning.com, we seek to:
Share experiences and innovative perspectives, focused on rethinking strategies and innovative approaches to learn and unlearn continuously. Promote critical thinking of the role of formal, informal and non-formal education at all educational levels.
Contribute to the creation of a sustainable (and continuous) process of learning, innovating and designing new cultures for the global society.
This project aims to facilitate the creation of a globally distributed community of thinkers interested on the creation of new futures for the education. Sustainable innovation, invisible learning (informal learning and non-formal learning) and the development of 21st century skills are some of the core issues that will be analyzed and addressed in this project.
The project focuses on many of the ideas related to lifelong learning:
the development of skills for the 21st century (digital and analog).
the importance of knowledge (tacit and explicit). new emphases on the
creative, purposive applications of knowledge (innovation). and, the
new means in which we learn, teach, and collaborate (i.e., utilizing
social media). Participation is therefore open to all people:
educators, learners, innovators, researchers, the curious, people with
interesting experiences, etc.
How can you contribute?
There are many ways, but the most direct are:
• Submitting an article
• Sharing multimedia material
• Upload a video to YouTube (and sharing by adding the label “invisiblelearning”)
• Tagging related thoughts on Twitter with the tag: invislearning
• Sharing and disseminating via Facebook or other social networks
• Spreading the word by blogging on the project/topics, inserting a banner on your website, etc.
How do we disseminate knowledge and materials generated in the project?
• We will select the best submitted articles/texts that are strong,
creative, and clear to be published in a printed book (in addition to a
freely downloadable e-book).
• Creation of a repository of good ideas and successful experiences at www.invisiblelearning.com....
• Creation of a space for dialogue amongst global citizens. The
official languages of the project are English and Spanish.
Contributions in other languages, however, are always welcome.
Also, if you are willing and able to help promote the project on your website, you will find our banners at http://tiny.cc/NoJig...
About the Book Coordinators: John Moravec, PhD, is an educational futurist in the
Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy and Development and
faculty member in the Innovation Studies and Master of Liberal Studies
graduate programs at the University of Minnesota.
Cristóbal Cobo, PhD, is a professor and researcher at Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences in Mexico (FLACSO-Mexico).