🧑‍🎓📚 New Educational Models

While universities & traditional learning models are powerful educational mechanisms, at the edges of these is the potential for new institutional forms.

Here’s a list of some new attempts at complementing traditional educational institutions:

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The first rough category is that of novel upstart schools.

Or, as per Simon DeDeo, “parallel academies” simondedeo.com/?p=931

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Here are a few of these upstart schools:

@the_new_centre

@schoolofmaaa

@Harbour_Space

@bradfieldcs

@sfpc

@woolfuniversity

and the Venture Science Doctorate from @deepsciventures

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There are also some interesting experiments happening in continuing adult education:

@whatisolio

@interintellect_

@lyceuminstitute

@CatherineProj

@BklynInstitute

The Modern Elder Academy from @ChipConley

The Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes: www.osherfoundation.org/olli.html

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There has also been an explosion of fellowship programs and informal learning communities:

@joininteract

@southpkcommons

@recursecenter

@join_polaris

@roote_

and the gap year fellowship from Powderhouse: www.powderhouse.org/programs/2022/fall

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Note, there is definitely some overlap here with the Enlightenment 2.0 as well as institutions from the Overedge Catalog:

arbesman.net/overedge/

arbesman.notion.site/arbesman/Enlightenment-2-0-bebcd7939b1b41c99dd45de2529086f4

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I’m always interested in additional new educational models, but the entire list of these can be found here:

arbesman.net/newlearning/

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