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How peer learning helps in our fast-changing world.

Eight 1-minute email lessons to put peer learning to work

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open interview What is Peer Learning?
What makes peer learning actually work? A look at agency, responsiveness, and connectivity with in-depth examples.

arc model Evaluating Learning Environments
The ARC Framework for evaluating programs and forms of education.

auditorium seating Practical starting points
Practical advice and examples for encouraging self-direction, adapting to needs, and building world-class networks.

Community-building
How do values shift as communities evolve? How to find a competitive advantage with local ingredients.

sticky note discussion Disciplines & skills
Curation, Facilitation, Convening are the new roles of educators.

Designing learning environments
A design process that focuses on coherence between learner and institutional goals.

Learn by example

Y Combinator puts the learner in control 4 min read

Harvard defines success by what the learner becomes 5 min read

The Santa Fe Institute bet on its unlikely advantages 7 min read

The UN FAO puts the learner in a fitting environment 5 min read

Communities are conduits of knowledge 5 min read

Peer retrospectives help people grow at Studio D 4 min read

Farmhack uses small group projects to spark new possibilities. 3 min read

Shell connects its engineers, and then gets out of the way 5 min read

IMPM dropped the Harvard case study methodology to develop critical thinking 5 min read

The Sources answered the questions "best practices" couldn't. 7 min read

The Africa Prize detects learners' needs before responding 7 min read

Communities mature in waves 11 min read

The learner is the educator 8 min read

Curators guide learners without telling them what to do 5 min read

When institutional goals cross internal agendas 10 min read

Salim Virani

Out of university, Salim founded companies in SaaS, e-commerce and an IT outsourcing, one of which almost bankrupted him. Then he moved to London, which almost bankrupted him again.

From there, he started a 30-city community that shaped the Lean Startup methodology, and created entrepreneurship programs top-tier institutions like Oxford, UCL, Seedcamp, Techstars and Microsoft. To focus on peer learning, he started Source Institute, creating a global pinnacle program in international development, and Africa's largest online entrepreneurship course.

Salim is the author of Mentor Impact and Decision Hacks.

Bart Doorneweert

Fortune & failure have made Bart an entrepreneur, a scholar and a practitioner.

An agricultural engineer by training, Bart has started a cotton co-op in India, researched technology adoption with East African farmers, and developed Open Innovation and partnership design tools used worldwide. Bart teaches entrepreneurship at the University Of Wageningen, the world's leader in agriculture technology.