Challenge-Oriented Collaborative Online Communities in the Paradigm of Sustainable City
▶Summary
The pandemic has forced various educational institutions to adopt an online teaching format quickly. From a technological point of view, this was not hard. A major challenge was the teaching metho...
▶Objectives
The CityGo project aimed to develop methodology and materials that enable higher education institutions (HEIs) to perform quality and engaging problem-based learning in a digital environment. The aim of the active community was to provide peer-to-peer learning, to create common experiences, that gives a sense of belonging, and increase participants’ engagement. Therefore, during this project, the consortium aimed to develop a methodology of efficient teaching/learning in collaborative online communities, where students are able solve particular societal challenges on Sustainable City. Project objectives: 1) to improve HEIs lecturers’ competence in creating an engaging and efficient online learning environment; 2) to advance competencies of higher education students to learn efficiently in international online communities addressing real-world challenges; 3) to create an open-access content library for the modules in the field of Sustainable City that can lay the foundation for effective partnerships between HEIs for Erasmus+ blended mobility; 4) to collect findings and best practice and share success factors and challenges of engaging digital problem-based learning in the various cultural and institutional contexts.