A New Mixed Mode Course Designed in A New Way
I haven't had much time to post lately due to projects are piling up at work. One of them is a cross-institutional online course between UBC and University of Melbourne. The course provides students the opportunity for comparative inquiry of Indigenous experiences of colonization and the manifestations of that experience in the contemporary socio-cultural environment. Through the use of digital interactive technologies like Flash and Immersive 3D platforms, students will have the opportunity to engage in authentic learning. Compare to the past mixed-mode courses, this one is more challenging due to the aspect that many of the subject matter experts are in the remote places. We must rely on video conferencing and project management tools to pull things together. So far, the team members are pretty happy with Skype and Basecamp. There are many exciting modules in this course are under-development: Flash based games, 3D re-construction of residential school, collections of multimedia elements and much more. So, stay tuned...
