Internet and Project Competence/description

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to put it into a nutshell...
The course „Internet- and Project-Competence“ has been designed to bring students to carry out real projects and to develop their communication-skills in order to enhance the flow of information between young people world wide. Within one semester, the students will


 * create an online community with international partners and search for information
 * carry out their projects (often combined with an excursion)
 * present the results of their projects on a website

Objectives
The main objective of IPC is to make students carry out projects collectively and to communicate with each other in order to produce knowledge. This meta-objective can be split up into the following items:


 * Capacity for teamwork
 * Capacity to resolve conflicts
 * Patience and perseverance
 * Planning skills
 * Communicative competence
 * Initiative
 * Web 2.0 literacy


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Course outline
Phase 1


 * Choice of a topic/country and formation of an online community
 * Drafting a thesis, developing a research design (questionnaires, interviews)
 * Preparation of the excursion/investigation

Phase 2


 * Students carry out projects, prove/disprove the validity of their thesis,
 * upload of the results in a self-created website,
 * and present their website to the public.

Certificate

Having passed the module, students may obtain the “IPC Certificate“, which assesses students‘ internet- and project competences (such as capacity for teamwork, communicative competence etc.)
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