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

Global Ed Con: Promoting collaboration across borders

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    Promoting collaboration across borders: two approaches Anne Fox
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    Why collaboration? Allthe learners have something to contribute
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    Why collaboration? Collaborationis the tip of the iceberg
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    Building trust Low risk eg fill in profile  Social  Trivial information exchange  Gradual journey away from comfort zone
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    The challenges Language  Paradox of entrepreneurial courses  Fostering trust
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    A tale oftwo 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?
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    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
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    M-HOUSE: Tasks thatpromote 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
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    dCCD FLITE: integratedgroup 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.
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    ConCurrent Design asa project process • The right people in the room • Can make necessary decisions
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    The business plan:a point of contact
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    More….  ConCurrentDesign FLITE: raising entrepreneurial awareness in IT students & employees  M-HOUSE project: raising households’ entrepreneurial awareness  Blog post series on Linked In
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    Images  Feedback:https://www.flickr.com/photos/gforsythe/8204979572/  Iceberg: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iceberg.jpg

Editor's Notes

  • #2 Hello to "Study quality - education, culture, communication“ conference organised jointly by Vytautas Magnus and Aleksandras Stulginskis universities in Lithuania
  • #3 Feedback, feedback = communication
  • #4 Feedback, feedback = communication (from tutor, peers, experience and experimentation) Does not have to include a human but usually does
  • #5 Collaboration enables learning by experience
  • #6 Reduce burden on tutor and value skills and experiences of students through peer, collaboration, review and peer assessment
  • #7 Underneath lies trust eg trust the teacher/tutor but also trust peers
  • #8 Linked In post, mention Janet Salmons and Gilly Salmon's 5 steps
  • #9 Framework for Learning IT and Entrepreneurship,
  • #10 To benefit from cross-border perspectives in personal development
  • #11 Lack of confidence generally, lack of language skill confidence, what sort of tasks could we give?
  • #14 Collaboration is implicit; a strength of the topic of this online course.
  • #16 In FLITE they work together on a common idea; in M-HOUSE they develop an idea individually with advice from others.