After eight weeks of intensive collaboration on our learning platform MS Teams, following our well established VCL (Virtual Collaborative Learning) framework, the seminar participants have now presented their final project proposals. In a virtual pitch session the groups first held their presentations which were then discussed by a virtual jury. The jury consisted of Prof. Safavi and Prof. Salimi and Laleh Raesy from Shiraz University and Prof. Schoop, Anne Jantos, and Mattis Altmann from TU Dresden. Furthermore, we had the pleasure to welcome Prof. Sonntag from the HTW Dresden a as guest of the jury to support with expertise.
During the seminar, the groups worked on a project proposal to support the development of sustainable and green energy solutions for the Middle East. They worked for the fictitious company „Innovation Blu“, which is a subsidiary of a leading gas and oil company specializing in the development of sustainable solutions.
Thereby they have been pedagogically supervised by qualified e-tutors and have gone through several phases of the preparation of the proposal.
Starting with the creation of a group contract, the generation of a common ontology and the first idea proposal including an interim presentation were followed by peer reviews, critical incidents as well as the examination of the components „people“, „planet“ and „profit“ which should be taken into account when creating the project proposal. Finally, in a final, 2-week virtual work phase, the groups combined their previous steps in a final proposal and presented it to the jury.
The CVC 2020 module has now completed the virtual phase, what remains is the experience of international cooperation, the jointly developed content, and a module that could be held as planned, despite Corona.
