{"id":13,"date":"2011-08-09T06:54:55","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T13:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/?p=13"},"modified":"2011-08-09T06:54:55","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T13:54:55","slug":"policy-projects-to-collaborative-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/2011\/policy-projects-to-collaborative-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"From Policy Projects to Collaborative Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the MAAPPS program has evolved over the past decade, we have been shaping it more and more toward applied learning and professional development – largely in response to student requests along these lines.<\/p>\n

The first step in this direction was the experimental offering of Asia Pacific Policy Projects that would challenge participants to address a single, tightly circumscribed policy challenge in the course of a term. Past projects have focused on mining regulation in Mongolia, history education in Cambodia and selective adaption of international norms in trade regimes.<\/p>\n

Some courses have also adopted more interactive formats for course discussions, such as staged debates, scenario discussions, case studies.<\/p>\n

The present plans for our two-week collaboration with Hitotsubashi University takes this notion one step further by<\/p>\n

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  1. selecting a topic that is current, pressing and accessible to students: trade negotiations between Canada and Japan<\/li>\n
  2. transplanting the course to the locus of policy-making: in this case, Tokyo,<\/li>\n
  3. collaborating with a local institution to benefit from a multi-perspective approach to a given policy challenge,<\/li>\n
  4. relying on the academic literature and experts on trade agreements in the preparation for discussions,<\/li>\n
  5. involving students deeply in the planning of the course,<\/li>\n
  6. adding as many meetings with stakeholders in this policy issue to the learning activity: the Canadian and Japanese governments, businesses, etc., and<\/li>\n
  7. introducing a formal simulation of trade negotiations into the activities (largely at the initiative of the participants)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The evolution of policy learning in the MAAPPS program.<\/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-13","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\/13","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=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/maapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}