permaculture

[Victor Guest <vic@daena.eepo.com.au>]

This Aussie group looked interesting.
Vic

Reply-To: SAED-SHARE-L@cornell.edu

TO SAEd:

I took this on-line (free) course several years ago and it was quite good.
People active in rural development and extension education, and k-12
teaching, are always part of the group.

Regards,

Nancy GS


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>From: Bob Dick <bdick@scu.edu.au>

>Subject: Areol 8 subscription details

>
>_____  __  __________ Southern Cross University ________________
>      /  \
>     / /\ \
>____/ /_/  AREOL 8 __ action research and evaluation on line ___
>    \____/\_\
>
>  A free on line course in action research offered as a public
>  service by Southern Cross University
>
>
>________________________________________________________________
>
>Apologies for cross-posting
>
>Areol 8 commences shortly.  Conducted over four months or a
>little less, its 15 sessions (or thereabouts) will provide you
>with basic information about one form of action research.
>
>As with previous areol programs, the theme of areol 8 is the
>integration of effective change with rigorous research.  In
>some respects, it is a combination of the principles of
>community and organisational change with those for change-
>oriented qualitative research.
>
>Later sessions describe an action research approach to
>evaluation.
>
>The on-line sessions are supplemented by archived files on
>various aspects of action research and evaluation.
>
>Areol usually attracts a multi-disciplinary group of subscribers
>from many different nations and of vastly different levels of
>experience with action research.
>
>
>
>If you wish to subscribe to areol 8, please
>
>   A.  read the following description,
>
>   B.  then send answers to the questions (below)
>
>  (note:  if you were enrolled in areol 7 and have already
>   indicated your interest in doing areol 8 there is no
>   need to complete the form;  I'll use the details from
>   areol 7)
>
>
>________________________________________________________________
>
>A.  The commitment you are undertaking:
>
>
>By subscribing to areol 8 you are undertaking a commitment to:
>
> o   read the sessions
>
> o   take part in the accompanying discussion list each session
>
> o   help evaluate areol at about the middle of the program, and
>     again at the end
>
> o   agree to your posts on any of the areol lists being
>     analysed as part of an action research project
>
>If you have little time, you can take part in areol with a time
>commitment of about one hour a session (sessions are mailed
>about weekly):  20 minutes to read the weekly session;  20
>minutes to access the relevant archived resource files;  20
>minutes to take part in the accompanying discussion list.  (You
>can pare this back a little by being selective about the
>archived resources you read.)
>
>In addition, two evaluations of areol take about 15 minutes
>each.
>
>If you choose to join one of the learning groups, this will add
>about another 20 or 30 minutes each session to your commitment.
>
>(Evaluations of past areol programs suggest that this is quite a
>heavy commitment.  The sessions, each of about 7000 to 8000
>words, are mailed out weekly.)
>
>Beyond this, there are many further opportunities for
>involvement.  Most sessions describe relevant activities,
>suggest further reading, and identify archived files which
>expand on the material.
>
>A number of people in the past have inquired about using areol
>for credit at their own institution.  This is a matter for
>agreement between you and the institution where you are
>enrolled.  Some people have been able to get credit for it as
>an independent study unit in the program they are enrolled in.
>
>Areol is designed to be equivalent to a single postgraduate unit.
>This is somewhere about 20 to 25 per cent of a full time study
>load.  An assessment package is available, which I can provide
>on application.
>
>________________________________________________________________
>
>B.  Subscription details
>
>
>1. Name:
>
>
>
>2. Brief bio (about two or three sentences about your interest
>   in action research).  This will be placed in a public
>   archive:
>
>
>
>3. Which, if any, of the following interest groups do you wish
>   to join?  (In joining an interest group you are committing
>   yourself to taking part in the discussion in those groups):
>
>   _  3a.  Community development
>
>   _  3b.  Education
>
>   _  3c.  Management and organisation development
>
>   _  3d.  Philosophy of action research
>
>   _  3e.  Rural development
>
>   _  3f.  Other?
>
>           If so, what topic?
>
>           (I don't know if anything can be done about these
>           other topics.  They will be announced on areol;  and
>           if enough express interest, a mailing list will be
>           set up.)
>
>
>
>4. Are you willing to helping to facilitate the learning group?
>   (This is likely to be shared with some other people.  The
>   commitment you are undertaking is to help the groups get
>   started, and to help keep the discussion moving.  It need
>   not be an onerous commitment.)
>
>
>5. Are you willing for any email you post to areol and the
>   associated lists to be analysed as part of an action research
>   project?
>
>   (Your anonymity will be protected unless your specific
>   permission to identify you is sought and given.  There is no
>   particular research currently planned;  this is to keep that
>   possibility open.)
>
>
>Please mail this FROM YOUR USUAL EMAIL ADDRESS to
>bdick@scu.edu.au  (the associated mailing lists accept email
>only from addresses in its subscription list)
>
>________________________________________________________________

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