These are the blank (un marked up) slides from the hour long online presentation on using Liberating Structures in online learning. Here is the description: "Come explore and play with Liberating Structures (LS). I've been facilitating since, what, 1976? When my friend Keith McCandless showed me this work he was doing on Liberating Structures, a set of 33 structures you can string together to ignite and engage the best in people, I knew he had put his finger on the sparks and patterns of success I'd experienced in my work. What Keith did was name things, note the underlying structure, thus creating all at once a set of constraints that opens up unlimited possibility. I love dualities. Paradoxes. IN this session, I'll crack open the door to LS and we'll play with a few of them -- we're still in the nascent phase of truly understanding them online. So expect learning, not content!" Websites / URLs Associated with the Session: http://www.fullcirc.com http://www.liberatingstructures.com http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=4810141&trk=anet_ug_hm

1. Infecting (Online)
Learning with
Liberating
Structures
WITH Australia e-learning series,
February 21-22, 2014
Nancy White, Keith McCandless and
friends….
http://www.liberatingstructures.com

2. Expand our repertoire to …
1. BE together
2. Engage WITH each other to
learn/create/make meaning of
knowledge
3. Unleash everyone

3. The Design Storyboard of our time
together today…
Design
Storyboard
Agreement/
Uncertainty Matrix
TRIZ
Spectrogram &
1-2-4-All
What, So
What, Now
What?
Harvest &
unleash!

4. Where are we starting together?
I am a ninja at engaging learners online….
(Preparation for our 1-2-all)
I’m not even
sure I know
what this
means
YES, I’m a
NINJA!

5. 1-2-4-All (on line variation)
Let’s Experiment with 1-2-All
Adey
PM’s
Althea
1.First, think quietly on your
own about the question
you
“How do
engage
learners online?”
2.Next we are going to break
up into pairs. Look at the
Participant list in the upper left
hand corner of your screen. I
will pair you off two by two.
3.Now, lets go to the next
slide…

6. Let’s Experiment with 1-2-All
Adey
PM’s
Althea
1.First, think quietly on your own about
the question “How do you engage
learners online?”
2.Next we are going to break up into
pairs. Look at the Participant list in the
upper left hand corner of your screen. I
will pair you off two by two.
3.Now, the first person in the pair will
private message (PM) the second person.
This is now a two person chat. Hover
your mouse over the person you want to
private message chat with and click on
“Start Private Chat.” Voila!
4.When you hear us call you back, return
to the full group chat.

7. Harvest from Paired Conversation: How do we
engage learners online?

8. Let’s debrief
together….
1-2-4-All in motion. Multiple
short cycles are more
productive than one longer
session.

9. Liberating Structures
…including and unleashing everyone
http://www.liberatingstructures.com
Keith and Henri…

10. Liberating Structures
Introducing tiny shifts in how we meet, plan,
decide and relate to one another
• Simple: requires only a few
• Inclusive: together, everyone
• Expert-less: beginners can
• Multi-scale: works for
minutes to introduce
succeed after a first experience
• Results-focused: likely to
generate better-than-expected,
innovative results
• Rapid cycling: fast iterative
rounds are very productive
is invited to shape next steps
everyday solutions, big
projects, strategy, and
transforming movements
• Seriously fun: boosts joy,
freedom & responsibility
• Self-spreading: easy to copy
without formal training

11. McCandless and Lipmanowicz

12. Liberating
with Micro
Structures

13. Distributed control
Distributed control
C
o
n
t
r
o
l
Open
Discussion
Brainstorm
of
One Person
Status
Report
Presentation
Number of People
o
Number of People
Included in Shaping Next Steps
Included in Shaping Next Steps
Managed
Discussion
C
o
n
t
e
n
t
Centralized control
Centralized control
Everybody

14. Agreement-Certainty Matrix
Low −
Sort challenges into Simple, Complicated,
Complex & Chaotic Domains
Agreement
Agreement
Chaotic
Complex
+ High
Complicated
Simple
Low −
+ High
Certainty //Predictability
Certainty Predictability

15. Low −
Agreement
Agreement
Chaotic
Complex
+ High
Complicated
Simple
+ High
Certainty //Predictability
Certainty Predictability
Low −

16. TRIZ
I don’t think we’ll have
time to do this one, but I
think it has great
relevance in
learning/teaching
contexts….
http://www.liberatingstructures.com/6-making-space-with-triz/

17. Let’s TRIZ Together:
"If our approach to teaching and
learning online was totally
obliterated last night, what parts
would you re-establish to increase
learner engagement?"
Type your answer in the chat …

18. Second round if we had time…
"If our approach to teaching and
learning online was totally
obliterated last night…
What new functions or attributes
would you add?
Type your answer in the chat …

19. TRIZ Harvest Slide
What would we stop? Invent? Keep doing?

20. The longer form of
TRIZ…
http://www.liberatingstructures.com/6making-space-with-triz/

21. 25/10 Crowd Sourcing
“If you were 10 times bolder, what big idea
would you recommend? What first step
would you take to get started?”
http://www.liberatingstructures.com/12-2510-crowd-sourcing/

22. The 15% solution
Noticing and using the influence,
discretion and power individuals
have right now.
– Keith McCandless
http://www.liberatingstructures.com/7-15-solutions/
22

23. Let’s harvest…

24. What, so what,
now what?
http://www.liberatingstructures.com/9-what-so-what-now-what-w/

25. What, So What….
Now What….

26. With a deep bow of appreciation to
Keith McCandless and Henri
Lipmanowicz …
Resources:
•http://www.liberatingstructures.com
•The video
•http://www.liberatingstructures.com/fs4
•A Liberated Professor Speaks:
http://www.liberatingstructures.com/storage/articles/Liberated%20Professor
%20Speaks.pdf
•UnScripted: Liberating Structures by Arvind Singhal
https://vimeo.com/51546509 10’20”
•Liberating Structures: Inviting and Unleashing All: Lipmanowicz
in Convo with Singhal https://vimeo.com/50352840 8’ 30”
•Liberating Classroom: Lipmanowicz in Convo with
Singhal https://vimeo.com/50347352 8’ 20

27. Thank
You!
keith@liberatingstructures.com
http://www.liberatingstructures.com
@NancyWhite
nancyw@fullcirc.com
http://www.fullcirc.com