Hi 👋🏻, I'm Mischa Colley. For more than 15 years I've been casually exploring the evolving landscape of education, schooling and learning through an alternative lens. You can read more about me here.

I support learning that takes place beyond traditional educational institutions via:

• HelloMaker - Helps young people, and their parents, build a confident, conscious relationship with technology, through a program, a mobile makerspace and resources for parents.
• Learning Prompts - Trail markers for curious minds and questioning thinkers. Coming soon.
• Learning In-between - A podcast exploring how learning takes place in the spaces in-between, through the stories of learners and learning guides from various communities, with a focus on self directed learning and parenting off the beaten path. Launching soon.
• EdTech consulting. Reach out if you'd like my help with a project.

As a parent of two unschooled children my ideas are around helping make alternative learning pathways more sustainable for all involved supported by the appropriate use of unobtrusive technology.

Also taking shape under the umbrella:

• A directory connecting learners with local and online learning opportunities
• Persistent, evolving personal learning plans that belong to the learner
• Ways to document and share acquired knowledge that stay with the learner for life
• Ways to connect these unconventional paths back to the mainstream (i.e. mapping learning to NESA outcomes)

These are a few from a longer, running list. See all my ideas →

Why this matters to me: open courseware showed me years ago that learning doesn’t need an institution, and that idea has never left. It’s part of why I dropped out of uni: I was learning more in my job in industry, and getting paid to do it. The entry-level work I learned my own craft as a creative technologist on is being automated away by AI, and I’m genuinely unsure how the next generation will learn theirs.