“E-Learning in corporations”: an elective to augment life long learning skills

The course "E-learning in corporations" is an elective for bachelor and master students. The course invites students to take on the role of a junior consultant in the field of e-learning and develop life long learning skills. The course is designed after principles of constructivism and connectivism and has a firm basis in authentic high stakes learning tasks where students are challenged to go through all the stages of a real consultancy project. The students' learning activities in the course have a direct link with the deliverables that are connected with the consultancy project. The students start off with exploring the concept of e-learning and state their own learning goals in addition to the general learning goals of the course. Next, the students explore the assignment, write a proposal and execute the project cooperating closely with the company that assigned the project and the teacher in the role of a senior advisor. Both the process and final product are assessed during and at the end of the course.