Innovative curriculum designing for work - based learning

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.