TOPIC 3: Learning in Communities - Networked Collaborative Learning

For topic 3 we were given an assignment by our moderators to design a learning opportunity that not only gets students working together collaboratively, but which also influences their capacity for collaboration beyond the course.

The Task

• Your department wants to offer an innovative new course unit ('module')
• The students: 1st year undergraduates, all disciplines
• The focus: the future of work and graduate roles
• Your task: design a short outline for this course, suitable for presentation at an informal event between global universities
• Schedule: please show a prototype at our 16 NOV meeting

The new course is online, and runs for a whole university year The students will work collaboratively in teams. The course will focus on at least two of these four aspects of work:

• The increasing fusion of technologies and disciplines

• Distributed knowledge and decision making

• Agility, obsolescence, innovation

• The position of humans in a society of technology and data

The Product

Your course outline must take no more than 10 minutes to present. All team members must speak during the presentation. What is the assessment, and how will the students prepare for it?

The Process