FAQ
These are virtual classroom sessions, where the instructor is introducing frameworks, distinctions, tools and methods essential to the course’s focus. They are offered via Zoom video conferencing and providing additional learning opportunities through group discussion.
To prepare for each of the teaching sessions, you may be asked to read or watch one or two of the recommended resources and access some of the optional ones.
Don’t worry. You will be able to access the recordings of both the teaching sessions and the reversed classrooms, complete with any written notes, presentation materials, and hand-outs and, within two business days of each session.
However, if you miss a session, you also miss the opportunity for learning from the live, interactive participation. You can partially compensate for that if you engage in the online group discussions following the sessions.
All courses are designed so that you can give as much or as little time as you like. However, to get the most benefit of the rich learning opportunities provided by them, most learners spend 6 hours per week on average.
The main environments in which your learning will take place are the teaching session and the reversed classroom occurring via Zoom video conferencing and the online forums of your cohort on the Discourse platform, ‘one of the world’s popular Learning Management Systems’.
Other places of learning in the course include self-organising collaborative work in your assignment team and your project context.
Coming to the Campus with a real-world project and pursuing it is essential for two reasons. The first is that it’s only in the process of learning by doing that you can really develop your capabilities. That calls for applying the insights, tools, and methods gained from our courses to a project designed to meet a real-world challenge.
The second and not less important reason is that by enrolling in the Campus, you’re participating in the ongoing prototyping of an innovative methodology for transformative education. The Campus Co-Evolve approach both embodies and integrates the unity of teaching/learning communities, action research, and contribution to positive social transformation.
Choose your change project wisely. It should be something that you have a passion for and is not larger than what can be completed during the duration of your course. If you want to receive feedback and support from your classmates to your project work, the Community Host of your course will help you find them.
Collaborative, peer-to-peer learning is central to how we learn on the Campus. That learning takes place during the video conferences of the teachings sessions and the reverse classrooms, as well as in the online discussion forums between them.
Other popular forms of peer-to-peer learning are the collaboration in the group assignment teams and working together with fellow classmates on presentations for the reverse classroom sessions, where the teams their discoveries with the rest of the cohort.
In the traditional model of classroom instruction, the teacher is typically the central focus of attention and the primary disseminator of information during the class period. During reverse classroom sessions, however, the focus is on the assignment teams delivering content jointly developed by the learners. The assignment teams will receive guidance information to support their work and to help their presentation deliver the best learning experience to the cohort.