A Mutual Learning Exercise is a working session where the people who did the work decide together what happens to it next. That is what this is.
A student hands in a PDF. It is marked. It is filed away. The next cohort opens an empty folder and starts again from nothing. Every year begins cold.
Your research goes into a shared record. The next cohort reads it, checks it, and builds on it. Your 2025 to 2026 cohort placed 412 files across eight groups. That is the ground the next cohort starts from.
Create → Capture → Integrate → Apply
You create the work. It is captured with its history. It integrates with what is there. The next cohort applies it and asks the next question.
Data → Ontology → Knowledge graph → RAG → Application
What you gathered. The concepts you named. Those concepts linked across the corpus. Retrieval that answers a new question. The design decision, and the next inquiry.
The charter is how the next person finds the edge of your work.
Stay inside the work and extend it.
Take a different turn from the same base.
Start a parallel line of inquiry.
Inside the private repository. The cohort and the teaching team only. This is not publishing to the world. You can share it with your names, share it without your names, or keep it out.
Would you want the cohort before you to have passed their work to you. Why, or why not.
What in your work would you want kept, and what would you want left behind.
Named or anonymous. What changes for you between the two.
Fill the consent form after we talk. Nothing moves forward until you have. The work is yours. The decision is yours.
AT6012 Living Commons. CCAE : UCC / MTU. Living Commons · Consent