Online Education is Passion Education
The only way an online education will ever work on a transformational scale, is if it is dedicated to our passions.
“Online Education is a legitimate option when one is passionate about the material.” - The only way out is to publish
But the real question is then how do you create a learning experience online in which you are passionate about the material?
It brings us back to a fundamental, I preached in my last newsletter. We assign ourselves homework!
In what way, is one able to hold themselves accountable to this self-assigned homework?
The solution to this is... establishing community.
Community induces accountability. Whereas, accountability provokes opportunities for collaboration.
When you see someone else striving towards their goals, it makes you more likely to want to work with them and vice versa.
Establishing Community
What makes chasing goals worthwhile, is chasing these goals with other people.
Joining a community of other self-driven individuals who are dedicated to complete their self-assigned homework.
By beginning to share your journey towards your goal with others, this creates the opportunity for collaboration, as well as community. Progressing forward to setting collaborative goals.
Working with a group, you can then begin to understand, as well as discuss the perpetual grind that long-term goals can be. While, being inspired by how motivating these long-term goals can be, and celebrating your successes in the short term.
Collaborative Goals
Setting goals, and sharing your progress, holds one accountable. Sharing this progress towards your goals, enables you to get closer to reaching your moonshots. Especially, in a conducive community with individuals striving towards similar goals at the same time.
So what happens when we join a group with the collaborative goal to publish individaully?
Until now, there hasn’t been a way to experiment with this.
Introducing the Newsletter Creator Club
Starting March 22nd, 2021 through hyperlink.academy, I will be facilitating the very first Newsletter Creator Club.
What’s This All About?
In the Newsletter Creator Club, we will explore the power of being a dedicated group writing online together, with the shared goal of publishing our individual work consistently.
The best way to learn about writing publicly, is writing publicly with others. Come explore what it means to join a cohort of fellow creators while setting yourself stern deadlines and sticking to it.
Learning Goals?
The ideal outcome for this course is publishing your writing consistently by a set time every day, every week, bi-weekly and/or every month! We will be setting due dates to reach your moonshot of creating a newsletter.
You should expect to publish your writing consistently for the duration of this club.
Club Structure?
Our club will have weekly required meetings to discuss tools, tricks, sharing best practices and progress we have made in creating our newsletters.
Randomized 1:1 pairings to talk ideas with, additional form of accountability, as well as sharing finished work for feedback.
2 hour co-working sessions hosted Tuesday-Friday, with optional weekend co-working sessions! We can discuss if we want to make some of these required or not.
Who Should Sign Up?
The ideal participant in this course is someone who is ready to develop their online voice. Someone who is willing to receive feedback constructively, and apply the lessons learned into their next artifact. Someone who embraces the Learning in Public mantra.
This club is not for someone who doesn’t wish to post their writing publicly!
What Inspired This?
This past Monday, I finished participating in the first ever Learning Adventure club facilitated by my friend Brendan Schlagel through hyperlink.academy.
Here was the basic club description:
“A peer cohort for propelling ambitious self-directed learning projects. Join for motivation, accountability, feedback, structure, clarity, and creative momentum.”
It is safe to say, it lived up to the hype.
I WANT MORE.
This club successfully enabled what was once a far-off goal for myself into a weekly reality.. creating this newsletter and publishing it on a consistent basis.
Our club had the same impact with the fellow course participants, such as lauching that new portfolio, making a detailed plan for real estate, and streaming content on Twitch more consistently!
Creative momentum was built. Feedback was received and given. Accountability is at an all-time high. Clarity towards my goals are now more present than ever.
So why not give a learning club a shot when it comes to building out a newsletter?
Concluding Note
“Once upon a time people were born into communities and had to find their individuality. Today people are born individuals and have to find their communities.” - Janice Kaplan from (How Luck Happens)
Let’s explore what the alternatives for higher education are, and find our community of driven self-educated individuals.
As a result of the success I found in the experimental hyperlink.academy Learning Adventure Club, Brendan Schlagel and I wondered aloud. . . about what other possible learning clubs could sprout from this initial idea of the Learning Adventure.
I was fortunate enough to be a part of a thrilling experiment with hyperlink.academy, and I am excited to host my own experimental club through them.
I’ll start the first Newsletter Creator Club!
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Cheers to Lifelong Learning,
Adam Bartley
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