Innovative curriculum designing for work - based learning: 2.2. Course of the training

Unit 2. Curriculum design for work-based learning

2.2. Course of the training

Course of the training - example of an online setting

A growing number of work-based training approaches nowadays blend face-to-face settings with online trainings (as discussed before).
While we assume that you know the how to develop a face-to-face setting we will now have a closer look on the arrangements and possibilities of online settings (such as webinars). Some of you may have more experience in this area, some maybe less.

You will find below a course of an online training setting, to learn about phases and methods.

But let’s have a critical look on an example, set up by a trainer in the area of adult education:

An Example:

Phase	Training methodology	Object / Theme
Opening	Individual work	Seminar registration, information on the seminar,
	Individual work	Virtual card
	Local plenary	Presentations and introduction / getting to know each other - coordination of the seminar process
Task coordination, goal setting	Local plenary	Dealing with the problem, create virtual subgroups
Processing of the tasks	Virtual work groups (synchronic)	Specification of the tasks, development
	Group reports (synchronic)	Specification of the task, coordination of further tasks
	Virtual work groups (asynchrony), group reports (asynchrony)	Independent continuation of the work, group reports (E-Mail, Newsgroup)
Compiling and processing	Virtual plenary	Discussion of project work, consequences for the work-up
	virtual work group (synchronic)	Development / Implementation
	Virtual plenary	Discussion of the follow-up proposals, decision on the follow-up ,
Evaluation	Virtual plenary	Overall Evaluation

Activity: Now, what is your opinion on that course of the training?
Is it complete? Is something missing? What is your opinion on the proposed phases of this setting? Would you arrange is similar or completely different? And why?

Discuss it in teams of two to four people.
Aim: to critically deal with a standard example and make first derivations for your own course of the training.