1 - Guide: Agile Teamwork in Web-Based Learning
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Introduction
Agile methods came about as a solution to the software issues in the 1990s. In 2001, they took a big step forward with the release of the Agile Manifesto. Over the next ten years, Agile methods started to influence different areas, including education. In 2015, the Agile in Education Alliance was created, following the model from the software industry, and they made an Agile in Education Manifesto.
Since then, more and more educators have been using and adjusting Agile ideas to fit their own teaching styles. In 2016, Liliana Carrillo from CollectiveUP and ALC Talent-In followed several Agile Learning Facilitation trainings in the USA, and in 2017 she brought the method and practices to Belgium and Europe by way of several Agile Learning Facilitation trainings.
In the COVID-19 crisis due to the lockdown, education changed drastically, making it necessary to transition to online and hybrid learning and a more active pedagogy. These were perfect conditions for the Agile Learning movement to flourish in Europe and in this context, CollectiveUP continued with its international partnerships to move Agile Learning forward in Europe. 2 Erasmus+ proposals were submitted to the Erasmus+ program via the National Agency EPOS, and both were approved: Agile4Collaboration and AgileXR.
Thanks to these Erasmus+ projects and thanks to the support of the Province of West Flanders, the access to resources on Agile learning facilitation has been democratized and one of the concrete results is this e-book.
We invite you to explore each of the five chapters in this book. The first chapter explains the idea of Agile in software; the second chapter is all about using Agile in education; the third goes into how to use Agile practices for project-based learning and offers clear explanations about running these kinds of projects. The e-book concludes with some conclusions and encourages you to try out Agile practices in education.
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We suggest citing this report as follows: Carrillo, L., Alvarado, R., Katrini, C., Fraile J., Van Cauwenberghe J., & Lassenius, P. (2023). Agile Teamwork in Web-Based Learning. Augmented Agile teamwork for hybrid learning at Schools (AgileXR). https://agilexr.eu/
Editors/Partners: CollectiveUP (BE), Fundación Universidad Francisco de Vitoria (SP), RHIZO School (BE), Metropolia University of Applied Sciences (FI).
Authors: Liliana Carrillo (CollectiveUP), Ruben Alvarado (CollectiveUP), Chrysanthi Katrini (CollectiveUP), Juan Fraile (UFV), Daniel Orgaz-Rincón (UFV), Paula Esteban-Manrique (UFV), Joos Van Cauwenberghe (RHIZO), Petra Lassenius (Metropolia University).
Translation: Dutch version by Joos Van Cauwenberghe (RHIZO), Finnish version by Petra Lassenius (Metropolia University), and Spanish version by Juan Fraile (UFV), Daniel Orgaz-Rincón (UFV) & Paula Esteban-Manrique (UFV).
This publication (in English, Finnish, Dutch and Spanish) and other publications and tools produced by the project can be downloaded free of charge from: https://agilexr.eu/
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
The project "Augmented Agile teamwork for hybrid learning at Schools” (2021-1-BE02-KA220-SCH-000027889) is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. The views expressed in the working papers, deliverables and reports are those of the project consortium partners. These views have not been adopted or approved by the Commission and should not be relied upon as a statement of the Commission’s or its services’ views. The European Commission does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in the working papers and reports, nor does it accept responsibility for any use made thereof.
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