Egypt Project

Developing a Learning Community to do with Educational Development in the Middle East
 

The goal of this group based problem solving project, at the outset, is to explore a possible topic architecture for such a community. What are the key issues? What are the challenges? Is their a need for development? If so how might this best be achieved? What might  a 'developed' educational system look like?

A team of mentors is being assembled and the project infrastructure is under construction.

The team is intended to work as a learning community around the problem. This means that relationships and mutual support are as important as the learning strategy. In fact relationships ARE a learning strategy. Through dialogue amongst the mentoring team and the purpose of the project, the group does more than it might be able to achieve individually. It also creates a learning opportunity for all concerned. The groups typically discuss ideas and share resources to explore the tasks.

At the end of the project, a report is created to witness the value to all concerned and wherever possible to create a resource for others in WAOE and elsewhere. Generic outcomes include:

• experience of group based problem solving in an online setting
• experience of working in a learning community online
• experience of co-mentoring online
• experience of how informal learning can be organised and managed
• experience of working across cultures
• experience of social learning dialogue

This is still a preliminary page, please visit us later for more outcomes and details about the project..