Joining up informal learning opportunities in a locality makes a lot of sense to me.
The Cities of Learning programme has its roots in the Chicago summer of learning – which was instrumental in the use and promotion of Open Badges back in 2013. It gathered together over 100 organisations, a lot of them civic institutions, to provide small connected programmes of learning throughout the summer. Open Badges were used to recognise achievement and gather data. It was funded by the MacArthur Foundation.
I recently attended an event hosted by the RSA exploring the possibility of applying some of that methodology in the UK. Watch this space…