APEC CHALLENGE CURRICULUM

VTM Intro Challenge:

Design the First APEC Learning and Leadership Center for Commercial and Civic Creativity.

Time: 2 hours. 45 minutes for work, 45 minutes for presentations/discussion.

The APEC Learning Teams in Mexico, Brunei and New Zealand will work on the following project simultaneously albeit in different time zones. At the end of the day in Mexico, the Teams in Monterrey will email their work to the Teams in Brunei and New Zealand, who, in turn, during their workday, will both respond to the Monterrey Teams’ work and continue their own. Then, as they leave their classrooms, the Brunei and New Zealand Teams will email their work to Monterrey. And, when the Santa Catarina campus lights come on the next morning, the Monterrey Teams keep the interaction going. Via this global classroom cyber cycle, the first 24 hour APEC classroom will be streaming towards collaborative success.

CONCEPT: To get the students and educators together in their mixed teams – e.g., one-to-two U.S./N.Z.’ers and two-to-three Mexicans – and have them recognize that the primary challenges in APEC are

• "Learning" and "communicating" within and between billions of very different people in very different places in 21 Member Economies.
• Identifying the many commercial and civic sectors/enterprises linking (or potentially linking) all those people and economies and communities.
• Inventorying, accessing and distributing the "best" in "resources" (including human and economic) within and between same.
  
  In short, to emphasize how important "learning" is within APEC because of its complexity and the resulting challenges and potentials.

With 21 Member Economies housing over _ the world’s population and generating more than _ the world’s trade, APEC clearly needs leaders who can learn how to identify and maximize the potential within and between the many economies and communities, sectors and enterprises.

Your Team’s Challenge is to Design the First APEC Learning and Leadership Center for Commercial and Civic Creativity.

Here are the basic goals and general specifications for the Center:

1. The Center is to be for middle school and high school students from every Member Economy.
2. Each student must complete a two-year study that prepares her/him for a career in at least three economic sectors and/or community enterprises that span at least 10 Member Economies.
3. You need to select a Member Economy that will host the Main Campus. The Main Campus cannot be in the United States, Mexico or Singapore.
4. In addition to the Main Campus, the Center needs a Virtual Classroom program. Please describe how you would create the VC program to reach the greatest number of middle school and high school students in every Member Economy.
5. You need to define the core curriculum – the 15 basic classes every student will need to complete – in order to secure the required two-year study degree.
6. You need to describe how you would hire the first educators to address the core curriculum and the need to reach students in every Member Economy.

At the conclusion of the 45 minute Team Time, you will be asked to report on one of the following items that you are asked to address in the Challenge:

1. The site of the Main Campus. (Which Member Economy did you choose and why?)
2. How you would create the Virtual Classroom program to reach the greatest number of students in every Member Economy.
3. The 15 basic classes in the core curriculum. Remember: the two-year study must prepare the student for a career in at least three economic sectors and/or community enterprises that span at least 10 Member Economies.
4. How you would hire the first educators.