Blended Learning: Face to Face, Virtual and Phone Dialogues
The program consists of 9 interwoven modules, two face-to-face sessions and a capstone project. The learning space for the modules is a blend of collaborative technology-based platforms interspersed with phone dialogues involving faculty and guest scholar-practitioners. We will use different learning modalities that will give you first hand experience with dialogue and deliberation approaches.
Module 1: Setting the Stage: Creating Our Collaborative Learning Space
This module sets the stage for individual and collective learning. It begins the creation of a “dialogic” learning community and identifies questions that matter in this. We begin reflective practices and explore paths that will guide our learning.
Module 2: Creating the Foundation: Conceptual and Theoretical Underpinnings
To develop a solid grounding, we consider different foundational and theoretical underpinnings of this work. This is a broad introduction to some foundational elements in the field.
Module 3: Introducing Different Ways of Working with Dialogue and Deliberation
This module introduces participants to engagement streams and foregrounds four particular approaches to help us find similarities and differences among different ways of working.
Module 4: Choosing Wisely: Diagnostics, Design and Self Reflection
In preparation for the face to face session, participants will practice working with diagnostic tools and strategic design to explore capstone ideas.
Meeting and Learning Face-to-Face: Skills Development and Capstone Work (Oct. 7 - 10)
Location: TBD
At this first face-to-face meeting, our time will be invested in skills development (strategic design, naming and framing, facilitation, moderation, diagnostic skills, and critical self reflection) and beginning work on Capstone projects.
Module 5: Deepening Our Understanding of Dialogue
Participants will develop a deeper sense of similarities and differences between forms of dialogue as a way of continuing to make distinctions and choose wisely.
Module 6: Deepening Our Understanding of Deliberation
Participants will work within an innovative on-line deliberation platform and develop a deeper sense of similarities and differences among different forms of deliberation.
Module 7: Making Distinctions Among Other Ways of Working
Participants are invited to explore many different ways of working and creating alternative designs.
Module 8: Linking to Action, Assessing Impact and Sustaining Dialogue
Participants consider different approaches to assessing impact, linkages to action, and challenges of sustainability using their capstone project as the focus.
By January 4: complete Capstone project.
Module 9: Reflecting on Learnings
Participants share and reflect on their learnings from capstone projects in preparation for final face to face session.
Bringing it all Together and Capstone projects - Final Face to Face (Jan. 16 - 18, 2011)
Location: Santa Barbara, California
Participants present capstone projects and through joint reflection on these projects and their outcomes, we integrate program learnings and explore outstanding questions.
Participants who successfully complete this program are awarded 8 academic credits in HOD-721 Dialogue, Deliberation, and Public Engagement; this course articulates to the HOD doctoral program.