The pandemic has dramatically accelerated interest and demand for a practical and scalable maker approach to hybrid learning for workforce development. We can see this theme emerge throughout this year’s conference.
How can we embrace and amplify the large reservoir of local tool instruction workshop materials that already exist? Is it possible to ignite a large-scale collective impact initiative to scale up and build hybrid learning capacity for maker shops of all types worldwide? What would we call this thing? How can it be governed cooperatively and transparently to ensure the broadest reach and impact?
In this session we'll hear about four maker approaches to hybrid learning, both before the pandemic and as a result of it. And, we'll be asking how to amplify what local maker spaces are doing in the arena of hybrid learning, to large scale -- on an enterprise platform jointly owned as a producer co-op.
We've got a great line-up of speakers including education directors from several prominent maker spaces, Artisan's Asylum in Boston and Open Works in Baltmore. We'll also hear about a library based makerspace at the University of Victoria in British Columbia and their use of academically certified digital credentials for hybrid maker learning. And, we'll take a look at Soup Stone Media's prototype development of what we like to call microlearning for maker spaces.
We hope you'll mark your calendar, join in, participate and enjoy today's session. Welcome aboard!
Here's a link to the full agenda. Please download this in advance and print if possible. We'll go over the agenda during opening remarks.
Plan to come with your pencils and wits sharpened. Please bring your questions, ideas and comments for discussion.
We're mindful how Zoom can strain our concentration, this is hard. We scheduled for 90 minutes, because 50 minutes wouldn't have been quite enough. But, we will aim to wrap up a bit early, and we hope you'll leave happy and wanting more. Plus, we'll take a short break about 45 minutes in, and briefly enjoy some sweet contemporary world music before we dive back into the exciting world of hybrid learning for maker spaces.
