School imitating life

My current class is Designing E-learning Experiences for Adults.

In four units we go over different learning theories for adults, then have to design an e-learning experience for each of those.

Last night I turned in the one for Problem-Based Learning; it is all about activism.

I had been thinking about it so much for the blog (and for life) that there were just all of these ideas ready to go.

Of course, it needed to be in a professional setting. I envisioned some young civil rights lawyers who are getting a lot more cases where they need to defend protesters and wondering what is even reasonable or practical in terms of strategies and actions.

Before they get all cynical, can they get a broader view of what has worked and what might work?

I have already passed the assessments for Collaborative E-Learning and Experiential and Transformative E-Learning. Both of those pulled from prior experiences.

In previous classes for Learning Design Foundations, there was this case study that I worked with for at least three projects. You could choose from one with middle school students, college students, or adults workers at a logistics company.

I had chosen the adult learning one just because it was the one that appealed to me most at the time. Now it worked out because only the adult learners would have been eligible. When I needed an adult learner base, here was a group that I was already very familiar with, having spent an inordinately long time crunching their data.

Then, when it came time for Problem-Based Learning, I didn't have any good ideas for them anymore. It doesn't mean they won't come up again.

However, for experiential and transformative learning, I did pull from something else. 

I finished Braiding Sweetgrass in January. I started thinking about things that could be good for experiential learning, favoring something tactile. I thought about basket weaving. As an e-learning experience? Well, are there kits? Are there videos?

That led to a four week unit that references Chapter 14 of Braiding Sweetgrass but also some pretty good links I found and some videos.

I want to limit the details I give online because I don't want AI to harvest my work and someone else use it for cheating and it implicates me, but here are two of the links that I referenced:

https://collaborationdna.com/tag/basket/ 

https://lorelea.com/2025/06/24/%f0%9f%a7%ba-why-we-weave-digging-into-the-5-whys-of-basket-making 

Now I need a project relating to competency-based learning. I don't have a concept in mind yet; coming up with that has consistently been the hard part.

It seems likely that the tools are already inside me, from something I have read and found interesting or worrisome, or all of the above.