CAS Digital Learning in Emergencies (2022-23)/module4-SalemAlhammadi

Module 4 Salem's page

Introduction

This page is the project for model 4 of Digital learning in emergency CAS for Salem

Overview of the project

The project is a higher education project, located in the capital city of Afghanistan, Kabul. The global goal of the project is to train and educate Afghani to create a new generation of leaders who are able to lead and manage the state institutions effectively. The main audience of the project is young afghani youth between 21 to 25.

Context of the project

According to the fragile state index, Afghanistan is considered one of the most fragile states, which means that the state institutions cannot fulfill their duties and obligations and lack the human resources to run those institutions. Moreover, the country is lacking financial resources and suffers from decades of wars. Yet, the government is controlled by a group considered to have very narrow perspectives of tolerance and the acceptance of different points of view. Additionally, the country is threatened to fall into a new civil war. Moreover, the country is suffering from economic sanctions and is one of the most affected by climate change, in addition to being a landlocked country, which means it has no maritime borders and must depend on its neighbors for importing and exporting.

Objectives &Outcomes

Global:

1- To train and educate Afghani to create a new generation of leaders who are able to lead and manage the state institutions effectively.

Local:

1- The ability to understand, and develop flexible foreign policy, and manage the relationship with the regional power

2- The ability to build a modern economy that is utilizing its local comparative advantage

Outcomes:

1- Understand the situation in the country from different aspects

2- Identify the main challenges either local, regional, or global

3- Design and manage realistic national projects

4- Identify the strengths to use them, and the limitations to avoid them

Project Structure

The project will last for 3 years and cover 6 semesters, each semester will last for 5 months. In each semester there will be 5 courses. Each course covers different topics, some topics will have only one session, and another topic might have up to 8 sessions.

Open Education Activites

The following sections illustrate how the program will be an open education program at the level of the session. Open education will cover two sides. It will use open education resources as a part of student's education and learning. The other side is that students' work, reports, research, and reflections will be published online, under the open educational recourses policy. I would like to emphasize that open education will not be taught as a concept, but open education as a methodology will be used to teach students certain topics, and at the same time to make the students experience open education by participating in promoting the concept through publishing their work online under open educational resources policy as mentioned above.

Learning outcomes:

1- To search and find relevant online open educational resources.

2- Sharing the work using online means as an open educational resource.

Expected time: 25 Hours

Detailed Description:

1- Read the attached resource from UNESCO that defines open education resources.

2- Read the second attachment that discusses the challenges of open education in higher education.

3- Explore the third attachment to find different open educational resources.

4- Find an academic resource that discusses one of the following topics that we already discussed during our sessions:

      -	History of political thoughts

      -	Peace and conflicts 

      -	Political actors 

      -	International affairs theories: Realism 

      -	International affairs theories: Liberalism 

5- Discover and analyze one resource that interests you.

6- Produce a written, video, or audio reflection for the chosen material, and publish it online as an open educational resource.

Resources

1- UNESCO Open Education Resources

2- Opportunities and challenges for higher education

3- Open Educational Resources: Where to Find

4- Commons: website for finding and sharing open resources and materials

Tools for publications

You may use one of the following methods to publish your work. However, the following methods are merely suggestions, and you may add any other methods that you find it suitable as long as it is online, accessible, and free.

1- YouTube video

2- Wikipedia

3- Podcast apps

4- Personal blogs

5- Social apps such as Twitter, Facebook, etc…

6- Commons network

7- Khan Academy

Activities

Activity	Time to Finish	Evaluation	Reward
Reading first resources	4 Hours	Quiz	Open education badge/ Novice
Reading second resources	6 Hours	Quiz	Open education badge/ Intermediate
Produce a reflection on one selected ed material	15 Hours	Reflection	Open education badge/ Contributor

Rewards

1- Open education badge/ Novice:

The student who is awarded this page has shown the ability to understand what open education is, how it developed, and why it is important in the contemporary context.

2- Open education badge/ Intermediate:

The student has demonstrated well basic knowledge regarding the challenges and opportunities that are combined with open education in the higher education domain.

3- Open education badge/ Contributor The student has shown his ability to find and use open education resources. In addition to contributing to open education by sharing his work under the open education policy.

Evaluation Criteria

For the last activity, students will be asked to produce a reflection based on the topics they selected, and the open educational resource they chose to analyze. The reflection could be either written, video, or audio file, and the student can choose one of the above mentioned online tools to publish his work as

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Criteria	4	3	2	1	0
The context of the project, geography, main parties, and history of the situation.	The student defined all the related parts of the context. He explained all the needed elements to understand what and how it is happening.	The student explained must of the important parts. He showed well understanding of the situation in general, with some minor misunderstood.	The student missed very important parts, he did not mention some important elements, and showed that he did not understand the context.	The student has very poor understanding of the context, he missed all the important elements, and showed no sign of knowledge about the context.	N/A
Analyzing the context based on one or more of the learned theories.	The student showed excellent understanding of theories, and established clear and evidence supported link between the context and the theories.	The student showed very good understanding for theories, and established very clear link between must of context components and theories, and supported some of his argument but not all.	The student showed weak understanding for theories, and did not link between theory and context mostly, and did not support must of his argument.	The student showed very weak understanding, and did not link between the theories and context, and did not establish any supported argument.	N/A
Identify and explain phenomena and components related to the context and the theories can not explain or predict, and come up with alternative theoretical framework to explain	The student well identified and explained some related phenomena beyond the ability of theories to explain, and suggested the alternative that explain them based on his knowledge and understanding.	The student identified and explained some phenomena, but did not suggested reasonable and strong alternative.	the student did identify a phenomena but did not come with any an alternative.	the student did not identify a phenomena at all, and did not come with any alternative.	N/A
Clear Academic language, with clear and understood ideas.	Very clear ideas, and the used languages is very strict and meet the academic standard.	The ideas are clear, but the used language is not academic.	The ideas are clear but with some limitations, and the used language is mixed between academic and non-formal.	The ideas are not clear, and must of the paper is written by non-formal language.	N/A
Using online educational resources, and contributing to them by using any online, accessible, and free tool	The student has used open educational resources appropriately and contributed to the OE in a by using online accessible and free tool	The student has used OE resources, but his contribution was not accessible easily	The student used OE resources, but his contribution was not accessible, and require some sorts of registration	The student did not use any open education resources, and his contribution is not considering an open educational resource	N/A

open education material. 

students will be evaluated based on a summative criteria-based evaluation. Using 4*5 Rubric