Co-Learning Modules
Collaborative learning, or co-learning, entails both the project partners (NEMCOG, NWMCOG, and EUPRPDC) and the CCED project team learning from the process to investigate and develop new knowledge relevant to the needs of the partners in their economic development planning. The goal of this co-learning is to create new knowledge and a networking support system to allow regions to compete successfully in the global knowledge economy and create entrepreneurial opportunities and new jobs.
In co-learning, two (or more) parties learn from each other while engaged in the learning process. This collaborative model replaces the use of a traditional pedagogical model with a "teacher" instructing "students." The co-learning approach is collaborative and dynamic.
In this project, each region was asked to identify gaps and needs in their economic development planning that could be addressed by new learning. Modules were then designed by the partners and the CCED team to address the identified gaps and needs.
New learning will empower the partners to compete more strategically and effectively in the global knowledge economy. A key objective of the co-learning plans is to create actionable knowledge to support strategic initiatives that can be taken by regions to compete successfully in the global knowledge economy and create new entrepreneurial opportunities and jobs.
Co-Learning White Papers
- Broadband Policy Recommendations for Local Governments in Michigan
- Criteria for Prioritizing Projects in Transforming CEDS to CIDS
- Data & Indicators
- Eastern Upper Peninsula Manufacturing Companies - Exporting Survey Results and Analysis
- Exporting Companies and Companies Interested in Exporting in the Eastern UP and Northern Michigan
- Exporting 101 Workshop from MSU Center for Community and Economic Development
- Exporting from the U.S. Small Business Administration
- Financing and Exporting from Fifth/Third Bank
- U.S. Commercial Service Basics of Exporting
- Canada Sault Ste. Marie and Exporting
- Investment 101: Capital Access and Investment Strategies in Northern Michigan and the Eastern Upper Peninsula
- Talent
- Quantifying Seasonal Residents Who Became Permanent Residents in Northeast Michigan, 2004-08
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