A community that stays after the course ends
A course ends after a few weeks, but your classmates stay. Everyone who finishes a course at aali joins the learner community: a networking group, virtual and in-person events, peer discussion boards, chapters in cities and an annual conference. It runs on the work of volunteers from among us and among you, not on advertising.
What you find in it
Joining costs nothing extra and needs no application. When you earn a certificate of completion an invitation to the group arrives, and you choose how much to take part. Some members only read the boards, and some run a chapter.
For completers
A networking group
You join after the first course you finish, and find peers in your industry and city to swap openings and advice with.
Events
Virtual and in-person meetings
Panels, case evenings, a book club and career clinics, some online and some in your own city.
Learn moreDiscussion
Peer discussion boards
Post a question from your work and hear more than one view, or answer a peer's question in your field.
Chapters
City chapters
Learner volunteers run each chapter and organise local meetings. The cities are a draft and are announced as chapters form.
Yearly
The aali annual conference
A day when learners and teachers meet, in person and online, for sessions, workshops and introductions.
Learn moreChallenge
The community challenge
Once a year a non-profit sets out a problem and teams of learners work on solving it.
The community in numbers
We will not state the community's size before it exists. These places are held for real counts taken from our records after the first cohort starts, and for now each one is marked draft so nobody mistakes it for fact.
Draft figure
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Members of the networking group
The real count takes this place after launch.
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City chapters
The real count takes this place after launch.
Draft figure
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Events held
The real count takes this place after launch.
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Countries members come from
The real count takes this place after launch.
The people who organise it
A volunteer learner leads each chapter. We hold three slots here for words from real organisers, with their names and consent, about why they volunteer and what they learned from organising a meeting for peers. The slots are marked draft until they are filled.
A slot for a word from a real community organiser about why they volunteer and what they build with peers in their city.
A slot for a word from a real community organiser about why they volunteer and what they build with peers in their city.
A slot for a word from a real community organiser about why they volunteer and what they build with peers in their city.
The community challenge
Once a year learners test what they know on a problem that is not an exercise. The partner organisations are held slots marked draft, and we will not write an organisation's name before it agrees. The challenge is also a chance to meet peers from other fields and cities working toward the same goal.
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An organisation sets a problem
A partner non-profit describes a real obstacle it faces.
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Teams work on it
Learners form teams that apply the tools from their courses over some weeks.
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Present and get feedback
Teams present their solutions to the organisation and the community, and what is useful gets picked up.
Challenge partners (draft)
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