I have recently started a 3-weeks French class with the University of Lausanne. I am amazed not only with my newly learnt French but also the learning design. It is very well designed and in fact, much better than quite a lot of workshops I experienced in the corporate world. Just look at the photo – the room set up is already so different from those traditional learning classes. The circle encourages conversations which is necessary for learning languages. When we need to write, we can move to the tables on the side.
Overall, the learning experience addresses very well a lot of the adult learning principles.
Here is a piece of the experience as an example. In a session, the teacher asked each of us (18 of us) to write on a small card 4 French adjectives to describe ourselves (not phy