Connected learning
Connected learning is a type of learning that integrates personal interest, peer relationships, and achievement in academic, civic, or career-relevant areas. It also involves connecting though online channels.
Analytical Framework: Business Model Canvas
The Business Model Canvas is a strategic and entrepreneurial planning tool. While it is a tool for design it can be adapted to use when deconstructing to analyse a case study. Using it as an analysis tool allows students to take a business lens to a case and to do so with an authentic tool used in business development.
Build an App, Build a Connection
Build an app, build a connection encourages students to engage with each other and teaching staff through the creation of a simple mobile applications that can be shared. This can be either an icebreaker activity in a tutorial or the introduction to flipping a classroom. It can lead to deeper discussions and investigations across a wide variety of topics.
Using Facebook to Build a Community of Learners
To improve communication with students and workplace supervisors and to facilitate a community of learners for students engaged in WIL.
Feedback from both students and clients has been very positive, and a number of students have also been employed by companies involved in the course as a client.