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Site History

History of this site:

The roots of the ‘Learning Freely network’ website goes back to 1995 with the (ALE) ‘Alternative Learning Exchange’ website.

In May of 1999 we became an official non profit organization, as the ‘Alternative Learning Organization’ (ALO).

In 2003 the intent, direction and goals of ALO had become more specifically related to ‘Natural Learning’, often referred to as Unschooling, which are autonomous learning environments. Based on this the ‘Altlearn Map Network’ (AMN) was created as a worldwide collective of Natural Learners and Unschoolers, using maps to connect the local networks with this International one.

In 2007 needing a name related more specifically to the purpose of the site ‘Learning Freely Network’ website became the new name with it’s own domain and a CMS system to expand the capabilities of what had been accomplished with AMN,

Dutch sister sites have existed along side the International English sites. In fact the official name of ‘Alternative Learning Organization’ is in the Dutch language ‘Stichting alternatieve leervormen’ (SAL). This is because it is based in The Netherlands.

So to sum it up ALO / SAL is the parent organization.

Current websites are ‘Learning Freely Network’ (English) and "Leren in vrijheid" (Dutch)