We’re delighted to invite you, lecturers, students and graduates (who have completed their studies in the last three years) from the member institutes of JLM Impact (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Azrieli College of Engineering Jerusalem, and the Bezalel Academy of Art and design) to submit your candidacy for DaydreamerZ, a design-led program that offers its participants an accelerated process of R&Ding new teaching and learning formats adjusted to the challenges of Z generationers in higher education.
A maximum of 24 participants will be admitted to the program. They will work in four multidisciplinary and multicampus development teams, each around one shared idea. The formats developed can be of different kinds (teaching, learning and evaluation approaches; physical and digital teaching and learning tools; processes and services; learning environments), scales (lesson, course, program, school, institute), and contexts (teaching, learning, research, entrepreneurship, academic and administrative management).
The program will run from May to June 2023, and include five intensive learning and working days, in which the participants will benefit from all the conditions necessary for effective short-term learning and working: access to cutting edge knowledge, experts, prototype designers, field observations, contextual learning, templates and formats, work space, food, and lodging if necessary. Above all, they will profit from inspiration! The programs’ objective is to enable the participants to develop concrete, practical products that can be implemented in their courses, programs and campuses, distributed further afield, and even proposed to grants and conferences
In addition to the physical meetings, a mentoring session will be held towards the last meeting with each group via Zoom, to plan the product’s implementation and distribution and to prepare the presentation.
The program will be held on the Innovation Floor of the new Bezalel campus, on Zmora 1 St., Jerusalem.
Lecturers, students and graduates (who have completed their studies in the last three years) from the member institutions of JLM Impact of all disciplines programs and years are invited to submit their candidacy.
The submission process includes three simple steps, as follows:
1. Choosing (an) opportunity area(s):
How might we enable the students to act as creators, to generate and implement their knowledge using digital technologies?
How might we create meaningful learning experiences in short timespans using immersive media and captivating storytelling?
How might we promote the students’ ability to filter and analyze huge chunks of data and turn them into the effective knowledge they need for their learning?
How might we enable the students to act as independent leaners, who manage and lead their own learning experience in a dynamic and ongoing manner?
How might we allow the students to act as entrepreneurs, create impact and have a positive social and environmental effect in the course of their studies?
2. Preliminary and brief proposal for an idea for a new teaching and learning format and/or joining others’ ideas in which you have personal or professional interest and knowledge.
The need to suggest an idea or join an existing one derives from the fact that groupwork will begin right from the first session. Importantly, the proposed ideas will be used as the teams’ starting point for discussing and finalizing the shared formats.
3. Providing your personal details.
The proposals will be reviewed and selected by a committee including representatives of the three JLM institutes, according to the following criteria:
The proposals must address a format that can be used on existing/funded teaching and learning settings. Ideas that offer a new course or formats that have already been developed and are implemented in full will be rejected.
Responses will be sent back by April 8th.
JLM Impact comprises the innovation and enterprise centers of three leading academic institutes in Jerusalem: the Hebrew University, Bezalel, and Azrieli Engineering. It has been established to encourage researchers, lecturers and students to march in the paths of innovation and enterprise and develop Jerusalem as a city with an innovative-entrepreneurial culture. JLM Impact harnesses the powers of design, engineering and science to promote positive impact in Jerusalem and worldwide.
For questions and additional details on DaydreamerZ, please contact us: