global ed con: promoting collaboration across borders

Promoting collaboration across borders: two approaches

Anne Fox

Learning: Beyond transmission

What works?

Learning: Beyond transmission

Why collaboration?

Learning is social

Why collaboration?

All the learners have something to contribute

Why collaboration?

Collaboration is the tip of the iceberg

Building trust

Low risk eg fill in profile

Social

Trivial information exchange

Gradual journey away from comfort zone

The projects

The challenges

Language

Paradox of entrepreneurial courses

Fostering trust

A tale of two projects: M-HOUSE

Challenge: How to raise the awareness of home-based European adults that their skills in running a household could be transferred to an entrepreneurial situation?

The M-HOUSE modules

Module title Make yourself at home

Make your dream come true!

Plan It! Do It!

In search of value

Move and take-off

Balancing the books

Problem solved

Branding yourself

From home to business Looking after guests (customer care)

Organising the trip of a lifetime (business mission)

Organising a social event (completing a business project)

Making a big purchase (managing resources)

Moving house (starting a new business)

Dealing with fluctuating income

Handling conflict

Thinking about a new business idea

M-HOUSE: Tasks that promote collaboration

Planning an event in groups

Analysing the two sides of a conflict in pairs

Pitching to a prospective landlord as the ideal tenant - peer rating

dCCD FLITE: integrated group work

Building on the fact that one person rarely has all the skills necessary to start a business, therefore collaboration results in a superior product.

ConCurrent Design as a project process

• The right people in the room

• Can make necessary decisions

The business plan: a point of contact

More….

ConCurrent Design FLITE: raising entrepreneurial awareness in IT students & employees

M-HOUSE project: raising households’ entrepreneurial awareness

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Images

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