The Viral Academy is a P2P framework for creating online and offline learning experiences. Students are encouraged to pass on their learning by the built in Learning TimeBank, which enables us to offer all courses for free to anyone in the world.
The methodology we have developed is designed to scale at as low a cost as possible, and to address the main bottleneck regarding teaching and learning subjects that are fast moving, and where teachers are far and few between.
One of the principles of the Viral Academy is that learning takes place everywhere - it should be embedded in the experience of doing things.
The Viral Academy is structured around Projects not Courses, but we have had to adapt the methodology to weave in both components. However we always strive to base learning around the activity of making.
At the Viral Academy we started to use the term Learning Object for the Hangout Based Lessons we were experimenting with.