{"id":1,"date":"2011-08-08T21:39:10","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T21:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/?p=1"},"modified":"2011-08-08T15:26:03","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T22:26:03","slug":"collaborative-learning-across-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/2011\/collaborative-learning-across-pacific\/","title":{"rendered":"Collaborative Learning Across the Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I write, 10 students in our Master of Arts Asia Pacific Policy Studies (MAAPPS) program are in Japan already or traveling there to spend August 15-26 in an intensive collaborative learning activity with students from <a title=\"Hitotsubashi University\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hit-u.ac.jp\/index-e.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hitotsubashi University<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This will be the first time that the MAAPPS program is reaching out directly to a partner across the Pacific and looks to be a win-win-win situation where the collaboration will add up to much more than the sum of its parts.<\/p>\n<p>In a graduate program devoted to the understanding of policy in the Asia Pacific region, we are acutely aware of the differing perspectives that geography will give on policy; understanding a particular policy decision may involve very different questions and approaches whether the analyst is in North American or in Asia. It is an exchange between these perspectives and cross-fertilization in policy approaches that we are hoping for in engaging with Hitotsubashi in our first active collaboration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10 Students in UBC&#8217;s MA Asia Pacific Policy Studies program are set to focus on Canada Japan trade relations for a two week collaborative learning experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6444,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[326241],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trade-course-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6444"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}