global ed con: promoting collaboration across borders
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Promoting collaboration in online learning. Why and how as exemplified in two projects aiming to uncover entrepreneurial awareness and skills. Session link: https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsas.elluminate.com%2Fd.jnlp%3Fsid%3D2008350%26password%3DGEC15Part162&ust=1416313379686000&usg=AFQjCNHSfcbPVym52RgyF5oYPQvq-QCgkwTRANSCRIPT
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
Blog post series on Linked In
Images
Feedback: https://www.flickr.com/photos/gforsythe/8204979572/
Iceberg: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iceberg.jpg