goal based learning - higher education - red, white, or blue?

Detailed Description:

This constructivist instructional model encourages student engagement and active learning of more complex social, cognitive, communication, and negotiation skills through authentic activities in a real-world context. Students must find consensus and negotiate compromise solutions within their group for each different activity within this scenario. The GBS will expose students to different perspectives within their group, and to the perspectives of different political factions within and between parties. Ultimately, paired groups with opposing objectives must work together to find areas of common interest.
The students Identify effective core party values (goals, ideals) for next election, find the best candidate for the next presidential election, create “winning” strategy (goals, ideals, policies, issues) for candidate, based on demographics and trends, develop a plan to improve the candidate’s public image (analyze record, “on air” and in person appeal.), create a plan to attract the 4 resources needed (time, money, talent, people) to win election, create a positive campaign flier that targets a key demographic group, analyze the opposition candidate’s flier, and create a “negative” flier that targets the same group, collaborate with the opposition to find a viable coalition candidate and platform and analyze individual and group learning about presidential campaigns, analyze their own meta-learning, and evaluate the course as a vehicle for learning.

Learning Outcomes:

The learner will be able to:

• Collaboratively analyze a complex problem.
• Research the problem individually to reach tentative decisions.
• Communicate persuasively to support tentative decisions.
• Compromise appropriately to reach a viable group decision.
• Collaborate efficiently to create an authentic document based on group decisions.