Workforce Pipeline Development
AI Skills Retooling & Development
Accessible opportunities for meaningful skills retooling that strengthen adaptation to co-learning and collaborative thinking with autonomous technological agents.
STEAM Workshops & Gateway Courses
Intergenerational one-on-one co-learning experiences focused on knowledge transfer and the co-adoption of meaningful pathways toward growth and improved understanding.
Resident Fellows & Student Interns
Plexlearning opportunities for researchers, practitioners, and students to be imbedded in place-based communities or special interest learning communities.
Workforce & Lifestyle Academies
Curriculum and spaces for developing evolving understandings of workforce and lifestyle opportunities for meaningful action within one’s environment.
Research to Practice Partnerships
Community Engagement Cost-Sharing
EDSN membership provides shared access to technologies, coordinated bulk purchasing, and professional services designed to reduce expenses expand capacity.
Makerspace Labs
Shared community spaces with access to specialized tools and equipment for repairs, hands-on skills training, innovation, and the strengthening of local productive capacity.
Peer Review and Self Evaluation
Peer Review and Self-Evaluation within EDSN provide structured processes for quality assurance, professional growth, accountability, and continuous improvement.
Entrepreneurship Labs
EDSN Entrepreneurship Labs provide support for testing proof-of-concept ideas, evaluating products and services, and analyzing business strategies.
Plexlearning Applications
Financial Education Research Lab
Program to deepen our understanding of the social behaviors and mental effects associated with being cash-poor -- even when credit-rich and own or control fixed asset.
Place-based Sustainability initiatives
Reframing success in growth and sustainability beyond economies of scale, by prioritizing trusted relationships and well-being over profit maximization.
Lifestyle & Career Management
long-term, peer-reviewed engagement and accountable support within trusted small-groups that strengthen self-confidence, personal agency, and access to meaningful resources and opportunities.
EDSN Personal Epistemic Library
Use of autonomous technological agents to expand personal bookshelves beyond physical collections towards dynamic systems of knowledge, understanding, and the ways we acquire organize, and validate what we know.
Community Engagements
Sports, Health, and Wellbeing
Sports, health, and wellbeing programs to promote community quality of life, physical health, and overall wellbeing through participation in sports, recreation, and active lifestyles.
Navigating the Politics of Being
On-demand programs that support individuals and groups in affirming, understanding, and navigating the lived realities and politics of being within their social and natural environments.
Horticulture & Food Production Labs
Small-group initiatives that integrate lifestyle engagement, food security, sustainable growing practices, plant-soil science, and community-based food production.
Local Security and Infrastructure
Sponsored programs that advance local community engagement, stewardship and improvement of essential local infrastructure and environmental quality.