Intro

Action-learning journeys (ALJs) are a complex system. They can span from a single event in a single hub to a whole network of inter-connected events across multiple countries. Common across all events, they are a process of continuous learning, oriented toward action.

A case-study serves the purpose of communicating the particular nature of a given action-learning journey as well as the outcomes and what they mean for the communities involved.

Throughout the entire process of organising and enacting one of these events, there are multiple forms of data being created, at varying levels of detail and abstraction.

Therefore, a case-study is continually being created throughout and is itself a living-process.

• Before the intensive, whilst organising: publishing
• During the intensive, whilst enacting: publishing
• After the intensive, whilst harvesting: publishing

Publishing a case-study is an ongoing process - continually making available more data from the action-learning.

However, there are also certain procedures, such as running an analysis on a dataset, editing filming footage, conducting closure interviews, and collecting final contributions from teams, that are discrete and need to be done before the case-study can be considered complete. In that sense, the case-study can be considered officially “published” once these main items have all been added, and the end result is shared.

A case-study is a living account of the work of evolving systems. Almost all tooling being leveraged to develop a case-study, especially the docs and custom integrations, are ongoing. The idea is for the audience to choose to subscribe to a given hub’s ALJ as and when suits them. Action-learning journeys are about creating a space of radical experimentation.