Enhancing Transformation and Innovation in Higher Education
Enhancing Transformation and Innovation in Higher Education
Enhancing Transformation and Innovation in Higher Education
What is a Multilogue?
Rather than providing an education for a career path in a single field of work, higher education must provide interdisciplinary approaches to an ever-changing workplace environment and provide students with the ability to navigate a complex world through laying the foundation to global citizenship. In other words, higher education should provide sustainable and humanistic education, teaching not only factual knowledge but also ways to approach different demands and challenges with a diverse group of stakeholders involved.
The concept of multilogues offers the opportunity to venture beyond the established paths of knowledge transfer in higher education. Multilogues aim to offer not only means to acquire knowledge, but also for personal and skill development. Furthermore, this educational tool aims to connect different stakeholders from inside and outside academia, bridging different spheres of society and knowledge.
Traditional teaching methods are based on a monologue or dialogue setting with a limited flow of information and often set in a hierarchical structure and power gap between students and teachers. Multilogues diverge from this pattern: the goal is to establish a horizontally structured learning environment where students, external stakeholders, and teachers engage on an equal footing.
What is a Multilogue?
Rather than providing an education for a career path in a single field of work, higher education must provide interdisciplinary approaches to an ever-changing workplace environment and provide students with the ability to navigate a complex world through laying the foundation to global citizenship. In other words, higher education should provide sustainable and humanistic education, teaching not only factual knowledge but also ways to approach different demands and challenges with a diverse group of stakeholders involved.
The concept of multilogues offers the opportunity to venture beyond the established paths of knowledge transfer in higher education. Multilogues aim to offer not only means to acquire knowledge, but also for personal and skill development. Furthermore, this educational tool aims to connect different stakeholders from inside and outside academia, bridging different spheres of society and knowledge.
Traditional teaching methods are based on a monologue or dialogue setting with a limited flow of information and often set in a hierarchical structure and power gap between students and teachers. Multilogues diverge from this pattern: the goal is to establish a horizontally structured learning environment where students, external stakeholders, and teachers engage on an equal footing.
What is a Multilogue?
Rather than providing an education for a career path in a single field of work, higher education must provide interdisciplinary approaches to an ever-changing workplace environment and provide students with the ability to navigate a complex world through laying the foundation to global citizenship. In other words, higher education should provide sustainable and humanistic education, teaching not only factual knowledge but also ways to approach different demands and challenges with a diverse group of stakeholders involved.
The concept of multilogues offers the opportunity to venture beyond the established paths of knowledge transfer in higher education. Multilogues aim to offer not only means to acquire knowledge, but also for personal and skill development. Furthermore, this educational tool aims to connect different stakeholders from inside and outside academia, bridging different spheres of society and knowledge.
Traditional teaching methods are based on a monologue or dialogue setting with a limited flow of information and often set in a hierarchical structure and power gap between students and teachers. Multilogues diverge from this pattern: the goal is to establish a horizontally structured learning environment where students, external stakeholders, and teachers engage on an equal footing.
The 9 steps to design blended Multilogue in higher education
While the format of the multilogue as a learning experience in higher education is relatively new and uncharted, the specific methods and tools allowing for facilitating and enabling the exchange of ideas and perspectives across multiple stakeholders (from within and outside higher education) are mostly well-established in education and cooperative work environments. One could say that the significance of the multilogue and this toolkit is to curate these methods in a way that enables meaningful exchange and works towards the objectives set for a given learning environment.
This toolkit or handbook is one of the results of the EU Erasmus+ project “Blended Multilogues: Enhancing Transformation and Innovation in Higher Education,” conducted by Trnava University (Slovakia), Leuphana University Lüneburg (Germany), Hochschule für Philosophie München (Germany), and the Newman Institute in Uppsala (Sweden) between 2022 and 2024.
The project included a phase of ideation and development, testing the method with selected groups of students at the participating institutions, fine-tuning, and conducting train-the-trainer events to share the concept of the Blended Multilogue. This toolkit includes many of the insights gained along the way, and the members of this project hope that it will help you with your own work in higher education. The toolkit includes a 9-step process to guide educators interested in the format through all the important questions.
The 9 steps to design blended Multilogue in higher education
While the format of the multilogue as a learning experience in higher education is relatively new and uncharted, the specific methods and tools allowing for facilitating and enabling the exchange of ideas and perspectives across multiple stakeholders (from within and outside higher education) are mostly well-established in education and cooperative work environments. One could say that the significance of the multilogue and this toolkit is to curate these methods in a way that enables meaningful exchange and works towards the objectives set for a given learning environment.
This toolkit or handbook is one of the results of the EU Erasmus+ project “Blended Multilogues: Enhancing Transformation and Innovation in Higher Education,” conducted by Trnava University (Slovakia), Leuphana University Lüneburg (Germany), Hochschule für Philosophie München (Germany), and the Newman Institute in Uppsala (Sweden) between 2022 and 2024.
The project included a phase of ideation and development, testing the method with selected groups of students at the participating institutions, fine-tuning, and conducting train-the-trainer events to share the concept of the Blended Multilogue. This toolkit includes many of the insights gained along the way, and the members of this project hope that it will help you with your own work in higher education. The toolkit includes a 9-step process to guide educators interested in the format through all the important questions.
The 9 steps to design blended Multilogue in higher education
While the format of the multilogue as a learning experience in higher education is relatively new and uncharted, the specific methods and tools allowing for facilitating and enabling the exchange of ideas and perspectives across multiple stakeholders (from within and outside higher education) are mostly well-established in education and cooperative work environments. One could say that the significance of the multilogue and this toolkit is to curate these methods in a way that enables meaningful exchange and works towards the objectives set for a given learning environment.
This toolkit or handbook is one of the results of the EU Erasmus+ project “Blended Multilogues: Enhancing Transformation and Innovation in Higher Education,” conducted by Trnava University (Slovakia), Leuphana University Lüneburg (Germany), Hochschule für Philosophie München (Germany), and the Newman Institute in Uppsala (Sweden) between 2022 and 2024.
The project included a phase of ideation and development, testing the method with selected groups of students at the participating institutions, fine-tuning, and conducting train-the-trainer events to share the concept of the Blended Multilogue. This toolkit includes many of the insights gained along the way, and the members of this project hope that it will help you with your own work in higher education. The toolkit includes a 9-step process to guide educators interested in the format through all the important questions.
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What are defining parameters and possible restrictions of my lecture / course / learning experience?
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What are defining parameters and possible restrictions of my lecture / course / learning experience?