New course format: Rope Team

Alternative names:  Studygroup or Docendo (by teaching)

Presentation about the course format:

  https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BVdLjIQ7qf4o6B5A10fJhOvjmSg_ESStKiju5j4ng_4/edit#slide=id.p

Classroom facilitator is involved as a guide for all of the below.

Team creation: Teams of N learners are formed, with similar levels of competency. (might be a “team up” junction point in an adaptive and personalized course/MOOC)

• Notification of team starting

Topic assigning:  N topics are assigned to the group, one topic each, to act as a student teacher to the others

• Choose top 3 topics, then system will choose who gets what.

Topic research: Each student teacher  is given access to a library of resources gathered from previous iterations of this topic.   They may also find their own resources, of course.

Topic presentation:  Each student teacher builds and then gives a presentation to others about the topic to help them learn it as efficiently as possible.  Q&A etc, until they feel that everyone understands the topic.

• Learners rate the presentation of each student teacher (rubric)
• Teachers rate the presentation of each student teacher (rubric)

Team assessment: The whole team goes through assessment of the N topics.  This can be an external assessment or possibly a peer assessment).

• Teacher (or system) assesses the Learners.
• Learners get results.

Team retrospective:  After the assessment, team convenes to see how it went.

Topic catchup:  If anybody failed assessment of any topic then it’s the responsibility of the team to help them further.  Anybody can help the troubled learner, who then goes back to re-assessment of the problematic topics (back to step 5 until they pass).  Classroom teacher/facilitator can be called in to help.

• Learners can rate/comment on other learners.

The team can continue back to #1 to tackle another group of N topics.