Dynamic course Lay Out

In this section I’ll set out the roadmap for the course. If you want to participate in this course, as a student you’re off course obliged but as a visitor you’re more then welcome, this section explains how the course works, contains information on how you use this site and how you can/must contribute to this course.

I made 4 “chapters” in this course. If you look through them you will see them as a linear course framework with a conclusion in the end, but it’s not ment to be that way.
Because of the speed of new thoughs, ideas, business cases, technology, …. everything starts over and over again. Every conclusion is a new starting point…So can you realy make a conclusion in the end? We’ll see!

• But for starters it’s best to have a look at the beginning, how things were organised and how the industrialized world worked in communication terms.  With different short movies, some related questions you should get an image on how this 0.0 world worked.  A short history of the computer and communication between computers we see the technological ideas behind this new world. With this understanding you can understand de 10 flatteners of Thomas Friedman, and I dare you to be critical on the one side, but creative on the other side to look for more flatteners! – All this in the previously section
• After the first readings and contributions are done (but then again make sure to look back at them because yesterday is already history…), it’ s time to look at deeper into this new “flat” earth way of business, communication and lifestyle.  With different real life cases where you’ll be working on you’ll get a better idea of this way of acting.  In this section you’ll get a lot of crosslinks to the blog and the flat world section of this site, but with concrete questions, discussions, creative methods, … you’ll end up with more questions, more ideas, more structure, more insights, more….  Make sure you have a portfoliomap (preferably digital, but hell no worries if it’s in writing) ready at the end with all the information which is relevant for you! The intensify section is your guidemap through this part off the course.
• The post reflexion makes time for a personal analysis of your information. Again guidelines will help you reflect, but this is your part! You’re rethinking your information, to finanlly share your knowledge in an open discussing forum.
• Finanly we try to overview the flat evolution and write down what is (not) usefull for us. And from here on off we look into the (near) future and try to make this ideas a new advantage for our business, lifestyle, education, vision, …. The conclusion section is the starting point of the future with looking back and understanding the near past!

A few ground rules to make this course a succes:

• participate
• participate
• participate
• share your information, knowledge and insights in comments
• interact thanks to Twitter or Facebook
• be part of the flatworldbuzz network

This course can be followed at Karel de Grote University College (KdG) and Fachhochschule Vorarlberg (FHV).