IDBM Blended Minor

Overview

IDBM Blended Minor is all about combining IDBM’s rich history in active, multidisciplinary teaching with contemporary digital tools to create a first in the world learning experience. The idea here is to expand on the IDBM Challenge and Masterclass combination by creating a fully-fledged blended minor that students can take regardless of their physical location. As such, we are creating a new minor program here that builds on existing courses to make the institutional transition as smooth as possible.

Basically we are asking ourselves here “would it not be cool if IDBM offered a blended minor program that would bring learning where the students are in an active fashion?”, and that is what guides our vision and work here. On a more practical level, we imagine this blended minor to offer other teachers and faculty in Aalto and internationally a benchmark for their own activities. Our aim is to document our process – as is the case with IDBM Challenge – so others would not have to go through the troubles of figuring out how to make things work. Instead, and we hope, they would build on our work by improving what we created in the first place.