A pilot or an astronaut might define touchdown as landing back on earth.
A sports enthusiast might see a touchdown as the first of many points to be earned.
While I am not a pilot, or an American Football player (I was in the marching band), I see it as both a landing and a quest to earn points
But why am I talking about landings and points? Read on…
Arrival
After many months of work, much of most of which I actually enjoyed, we are excited/elated/pumped to announce the delivery of our online courses platform. As is typical of large projects, we did not really know what we were getting into until 50% of the way in. At that point you begin to wonder where it will all end up. Thankfully we are a driven organization and our mission of “Building Communities of Learners” kept us razor focused and free (most of the time) from distractions.
These works provide us fantastic opportunities to connect with brilliant, interesting and dynamic educational leaders like you.
Connecting Instructors and Learners
The consensus of our massive whiteboard with many, many circled good ideas and many, many crossed out bad ones came down to to this: We love to connect outstanding instructors with outstanding learners like you.
As you know, we do a lot of conferences and events! As a reader of this post, you likely attended one of our conferences, workshops or shared a beer and conversation with a colleague in your city at a Teachmeet. You might also know it delights us to share the voices and stories of educational thought leaders through our podcast platform (21clRadio.com) and this blog.
These works provide us fantastic opportunities to connect with brilliant, interesting and dynamic educational leaders like you.
Extend the Learning
I know that sometimes when I hear an interview, read a good post or hear someone speak, I want to continue to explore what I have learned. Rarely, however, is there an opportunity to do that.
Well, that is a changing.
The courses platform extends learning opportunities beyond the first encounter. Continue to grow and improve your practice. Access to these fantastic individuals means we are able to recruit some of the best educators and share their content with you.
Writing and building courses, often for graduate credit, is an exciting and super challenging effort
Interested in Joining the Platform?
Writing and building courses, often for graduate credit, is an exciting and super challenging effort. One well worth the time as it gives you a chance to see how others react, and interact, with your ideas and beliefs.
We are always looking for excellent instructors to join us. If this is something of interest to you, reach out to me: Michael@21c-learning.com
Of Course Without You…
None of this would be possible.
At over 5000 strong, you all make up a fantastic and rapidly growing membership of of educators who challenge and push us all forward everyday. I/we are hopeful that our effort to bring you another way of learning meets your needs.
