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
Location: Washington, DC, September 22 - 25, 2011
This module sets the stage for individual and collective learning. It begins the creation of a “dialogic” learning community and identifies the substance of our learning and the process that will guide our learning.
Module 2: Creating the Foundation: Conceptual and Theoretical Underpinnings
To develop a solid grounding, we consider a variety of traditional and contemporary theoretical approaches to this work. This is a broad introduction to some foundational elements in the field of public dialogue and deliberation.
Module 3: Introducing Different Ways of Working with Dialogue and Deliberation
This module introduces participants to a variety of approaches utilized in dialogue and deliberation. Students learn about making distinctions among these among these practices and also discover some similarities among different dialogue formats.
Module 4: Choosing Wisely: Diagnostics, Design and Self Reflection
Participants will begin to consider which diagnostic tools and dialogue formats may be the most appropriate for their learning goals and ultimate class capstone project.
Module 5: Deepening Our Understanding of Dialogue
Participants will develop a deeper sense of similarities and differences between two forms of dialogue through comparative case studies.
Module 6: Deepening Our Understanding of Deliberation
Participants develop a deeper sense of similarities and differences among different forms of deliberation. They will appreciate the fundamental shifts necessary in an encounter designed to consider alternatives and reach a collaborative group decision.
Module 7: Making Distinctions Among Other Ways of Working
Participants are invited to explore more contemprary ways of working and creating alternative dialogue designs including virtual meeting spaces and the use of social media in its various forms.
Module 8: Linking to Action, Assessing Impact and Sustaining Dialogue
Participants consider different approaches to assessing outcomes, measuring impact and creating linkages to action for dialogue participants. Students consider the challenges of sustainability in the public dialogue process. These elements are given specific considerations in the participants' capstone projects.
Module 9: Reflecting on Learnings
Participants share and reflect on their learning from course material, the interactive class process and their individual capstone projects in preparation for the final face to face session.
Bringing it all Together and Capstone projects - Final Face to Face (Jan. 13 - 16, 2012)
Location: Santa Barbara, California
Participants present their individual capstone projects and reflect on these project's impacts and the accomplishment of their learning goals.
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.