Experiments with Learning Clubs

Hyperlink is built to support the sort of courses we want to see more of — small cohorts of learners, guided by a curriculum and facilitator, exploring a specific topic together.

Now we’re trying a slightly different format for group learning: Clubs.

We launched last week and it was awesome — we’re still in the very early stages, but it feels great to have Hyperlink out in the world, with courses we're excited about, and see more and more people start to get involved.

We’ve been shifting into hyperdrive*, working on our course pipeline in parallel with new feature development, and wanted to share a bit more about what's on the short term roadmap.

(* Eventually we may exhaust the hyper- lexicon…but not today!)

Launch Lineup

The most exciting moment in Hyperlink's history to date: we're launching with a lineup of 8 awesome courses.

For the past two months, we've worked with talented creators to workshop learning experiences, taking courses from idea to outline to full curriculum. It's time to give them a try!

Art, design, writing, technology, drawing, dreams. Deep dives; challenging projects. Cohorts starting in September.

Hyperlink Courses

The Meta Course is Hyperlink's course-creation course.

We designed it as a lightweight way to bring together small groups of curious course creators to go from concept to outline to syllabus, with some facilitation practice mixed in.

We just wrapped up the third cohort of the Meta Course, and we want to share what we learned from workshopping around 20 different course ideas!

Here's a write-up with detail on what worked well, what felt a bit rough, and ideas for how we plan to improve the Meta Course:

Hyperlink is here, and we're excited to tell you all about it!

We're a team of three, building https://hyperlink.academy/ — a new internet school, and a platform for facilitating awesome learning experiences.

Our priority is learning that's based around people, designed to be meaningful and effective. We're creating courses ourselves, and laying the foundations for infrastructure we hope will power many more.

We've got lots cooking right now, including some cool new features in progress, like seedlings to catalyze course ideas, and templates for building the structure of your course. And we're in the midst of experimenting with some great courses — more on all that coming soon.