XLP is being developed by Professor Ben Koo at Tsinghua University, Department of Industrial Engineering. So far it has been tested in undergraduate as well as graduate education, at universities, vocational schools and high schools, in different formats such as the 4-day (80 hour) Orientation Program, the 8-week Lab Exploration Program, and the 16-Week Global Manufacturing Strategy Program. Participants have included students, scholars, and ‘hackers’ from Asia, Europe, and North-America.
I. ==WHAT IT IS==
As a design methodology for learning activities, XLP can refer to educational practice in a number of interrelated ways. It is at once a training ground for developing a range of professional skills, a crowd-learning operating system, and a large-group intervention. These usages of the term can be briefly described as follows.
training ground