Graduate Students on "Global Environment and National Resource Forum

Adjusted Method of Study

Global Environmental and Natural Resources Forum (June - October 2007)

Faculty of Environment and Resource Studies, Mahidol University, Thailand

10 June 2007

Objective:

The main objective of the adjusted method of study of this course is to develop an approach more effective to learning about global environmental issues and sustainable solutions explored. It can be coined the approach to creating "Collective Intelligence" (CI). Basically, it revolves around students both individually and collectively.

Students are expected to:

1 Select one topic related to the global environmental issue currently are high on public agenda and debate;

2 Take turn on a weekly basis to facilitate discussion on the group BLOG given, by posting and raising questions and issues important enough to generate responses and comments from other students from the class;

3 Contribute to the debates and issue posted by the individual student facilitator in a form of reflection and/or critique or of providing new information and thoughts

4 Be sure that questions and issues posted (by facilitator) and responses (from participating students in class) must be well searched and well conceptualized in a scholar tradition;

5 Give a mark or "vote" to comments from other students.

Grading:

• Facilitators will be marked on the number of fellow students who participate in the debate or issue posted; high marks will be given to those who could bring outside participants and experts to contribution to the discussion of the issue;
• Each student will be graded on the number of contributions made to issues and debates posted by student facilitators;
• This also applies to all Ph.D. students (under my supervision)
  

Course Coordinator: Fourth World; teopy@mahidol.ac.th