1. Project Organized Learning - a course from the Master Programs Introduction Semester for foreign student in Electronics and Information Technology
Lars Peter Jensen
Associated Professor at Aalborg University
Department of Control Engineering
Fredrik Bajers Vej 7C, DK Aalborg East
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2. 1. What is a problem based project?
The Aalborg model:
PBL, Projects, Team work
A four phase model of a Project
Analysing: why, what and how?
Reflection for action
Exercise, start analysing your project
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3. Structure of a semester:
Study courses
Project courses
Examination
50% - 33%
So now you know what a semester is , but what is your teaching task’s on a given semester?
Depending on what semester we look at the projects takes among 50% (first year) and 67% (9’th semester) of the students time, so a major teaching task is to be supervisor for a project group. The tasks for the supervisor will be a major issue on Wednesday, but now I will say that it is about advising and facilitating. At the end of the semester each of the projects and the members of the project group have to be examined, so the supervisor will now act as an examinator, and there will be appointed another teacher as a censor. So if you for instance is a supervisor for 2 project groups at 6’th semester, you also might be asked to be censor for one of your colleagues on another semester that is within your expertise. The study board pays you some hours for being a supervisor, depending upon which semester it is and how many students there is in the study group, but it will normally correspond to 10 – 15 % of your working time within a semester, meaning that if you e.g.. Is supervisor for four groups, then you will be fully occupied as a teacher (50 %) if you are an associated professor.
The rest of the time the students take courses, both the project related ones, where your job is to held lectures but also, as you will know in the afternoon to instruct the students doing exercises. When there are many students following the course (normally more than 5 groups) there will be an extra instructor to help during the exercises, and this job is often done by Ph.D. students who are not yet giving courses them selves. The payment for giving courses depend on the length of the course, but I will tell you about that in the afternoon.
The study courses needs lectures and instructors as well, but as they are general courses they have to be examined individually, and this is done by the lecturer, mostly by a written examination without a censor. The study board will pay you ½ hour for each student to make the examination exercises and to control the students answers.
Project
50% - 67%
Examination
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4. Project Organized Learning
Timing of a semester
Project courses
Study courses
Project
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5. Projects in the first semester
Reflective evaluation Reflective evaluation
Process analysis Process analysis
Evaluation Evaluation
Lessons
P0 – 5 weeks
P1 – 10 weeks
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6. Project Organized Learning
Reflection for Action
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7. Project Organized Learning
Results:
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8. 2. P0-experience exchange
Programme
8.15: Lecture I: On reflection and learning
9.00: P0-experience exchange i cross- groups
10.45: Poster presentation
11.30: Lecture II: On the P0- process analysis
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9. Project Organized Learning
HOW to reflect?
Experience
Test
Reflection
Generalisation
The P0 project has given you some experience.
You analyse your experience through reflection.
By asking what and how to do better you generalise
in the form of ’Good Advice’ which can be tested in P1 and give you new experience.
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10. Project Organized Learning
Poster Presentation
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11. Project Organized Learning
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12. Cross-cultural Team Building Learning in a New Culture
International Master Program POL Course Mm3
Cross-cultural Team Building Learning in a New Culture
Xiangyun Du
October 15th 2003
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13. Project Organized Learning
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14. Project Organized Learning
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15. Project Organized Learning
4. Project Management
Contents:
The project settings and goal
Managing people:
Co-operation contract, Team health assessment
Project Planning, managing time:
Activity diagram
How long time do we need for a given activity? - how to make a qualified guess
The Gantt chart
Project monitoring
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16. The co-operation agreement – A tool for project management
Expectations and ambitions ?
Meetings – How often ? – What if somebody is late ?
Organising meetings , chairman, referee, use of blackboard ?
Division of labour ?
What kind of response do you give within the group ?
How do you prepare a meeting with your supervisor ?
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18. Self and group exercise on assessment of
Team assessment
How ’well’ is your Team ?
Self and group exercise on assessment of
Team ”Health Profile”
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19. Gannt chart (Timescedule)
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20. 5. Learning and learning styles
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21. Project Organized Learning
6: Conflict handling
Agenda:
Conflicts, what, why and how
Role play about conflicts
Break
Preventing conflicts
Conflict behaviour and conflict solving
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22. 7. Presentation and documentation skills
How to write scientific documentation
How to review others writing
Oral presentations
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