{"id":5,"date":"2012-03-23T17:18:11","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T17:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.195.124.246\/~wisecon1\/blog\/?p=5"},"modified":"2012-03-23T17:18:11","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T17:18:11","slug":"key-takeaways-from-the-harvard-business-school-publishing-seminar-on-participant-centered-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/?p=5","title":{"rendered":"Key Takeaways from the Harvard Business School Publishing Seminar on Participant Centered Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to my day job of helping run <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NYUDL\" target=\"_self\">online learning programs at NYU-SCPS<\/a>, I also am an adjunct faculty member in our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scps.nyu.edu\/areas-of-study\/leadership\/graduate-programs\/\" target=\"_self\">division of Leadership and Human Capital Management<\/a>. All of our courses use case studies to teach students how to analyze business problems. &#0160;Though I&#39;ve been a victim of the case study method in graduate school, I have not taught business school case studies until about a year ago. &#0160;I have used mini-cases, and lots of scenarios, but the teaching the multi-layered case study still new to me.&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>Still, I start with the notion that teaching that puts students at the center of learning is an idea I always strive to put into practice in my classes. &#0160;The <a href=\"http:\/\/hbsp.harvard.edu\/product\/pcl-moreinfo\" target=\"_self\">Participant Centered Learning, Art and Craft of Discussion Leadership<\/a> session allowed me to see how the experts conduct the in class session and prepare for it. &#0160;In the spirit of PCL, we also got to try it out. &#0160;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/tedbongiovanni.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834208b9953ef01630331d6f1970d-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo Mar 17, 1 59 15 PM\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834208b9953ef01630331d6f1970d\" src=\"http:\/\/tedbongiovanni.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834208b9953ef01630331d6f1970d-500wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Photo Mar 17, 1 59 15 PM\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My takeaways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Preparing the process of how the discussion will unfold is as important as preparing the content. Generally, when preparing my classes, I spend more time thinking about the process than the actual content. &#0160;Our instructors view content and process as individual blades on a pair of scissors, both essential to cutting.<\/li>\n<li>The technology was almost invisible, and instructors were adept at using it to aid our discussion. &#0160;&quot;When used correctly, the &quot;boards&quot; (in this case, the most beautiful black boards I&#39;ve ever seen) become like an extra instructor in the class. &#0160;In a future post, I&#39;m going to write about how we might achieve a similar effect in an online class<\/li>\n<li>Students bring gifts to class, but you have to be prepared to accept them. &#0160;A gift could come in the form of a question, or a mis-understanding, or an argument. &#0160;It&#39;s the instructors role to decide whether or not to accept the gift, and then direct the discussion.<\/li>\n<li>Stick to getting through 1 big idea in an hour, but break the discussion down into smaller &quot;blocks.&quot; &#0160;Different instructors will spend different amounts of time on different parts of a case.<\/li>\n<li>Assess class participation *immediately* after class. &#0160;At HBS, every case based class typically has 100 students. &#0160;Still, instructors assign a grade, and usually a code to what a student&#39;s contribution was during a particular class. &#0160;<\/li>\n<li>End class with a question about the discussion so that the conversation continues after class.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Powered chalk boards and museum quality art on the walls aside, the part of which I am most envious? That each class has 8 to 10 sections per semester, with a section leader for each. Those instructors work together to craft the discussion questions and develop a teaching plan, and then debrief to see how it worked. &#0160;That approach of co-design and development seems like a great way to develop novel approaches to a case.<\/p>\n<p>I would highly recommend these <a href=\"http:\/\/hbsp.harvard.edu\/product\/pcl-moreinfo\" target=\"_self\">workshops<\/a> for anyone teaching case studies. &#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to my day job of helping run online learning programs at NYU-SCPS, I also am an adjunct faculty member in our division of Leadership and Human Capital Management. All of our courses use case studies to teach students how to analyze business problems. &#0160;Though I&#39;ve been a victim of the case study method [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}