Submit your best practice on the University of the Future!
Do you know a great example of an (educational) institution that has an effective and innovative organizational structure, educational initiative, research strategy, or any other interesting example that you would envision to be of added value in the University of the Future? Let us know by sharing your best practices.
CDIO 2023: A week full of activities and inspiration!
Straight from the TEE conference in Boston, we challenged our jetlag and visited the CDIO 2023 conference in Trondheim, Norway! The conference, organized by NTNU, consisted of inspiring keynotes, presentations, roundtables, and workshops from higher education institutions from all over the world. Additionally, this was also the stage where we presented our paper 'Visualizing Extracurricular Student Teams Learning at TU/e innovation Space with CDIO Syllabus’, hosted our workshop ‘Enabling Learning and Competence Development of Students in Extracurricular Environments’, and organized our first full-day and in-person session for our international working group ‘Designing the University of the Future’. We cannot wait to share the results with you and follow-up with our working group in the coming months!
TEE 2023: Taking the University of the Future abroad!
After our first convergence workshop it was time to take our project to the international stage, the TEE 2023 conference in Boston, USA. This international symposium on problem-based learning was organized by MIT, Harvard and Aalborg University. Next to the numerous instructive guided discussions and workshops that we attended we also took the opportunity to visit the campuses of Harvard, MIT and Olin and meet with inspiring colleagues. The week ended with our own ‘Designing the University of the Future’ workshop. The great input, feedback and attention we got made this last day a perfect ending to a successful visit!
We are very happy to share that our first convergence workshop was very insightful! Colleagues from within the Eindhoven University of Technology, as well as outside stakeholders, joined us in working out the artifacts of the University of the Future in more detail. This was also the first time we could test our newly developed card deck. Both on process and content level we learned a lot from this session, and we are very excited to continue our journey in shaping the University of the Future together! Do you want to see the implementations of the artifacts of the University of the Future that the groups came up with during the session? You can see the inspiring design via MIRO.
We published the University of the Future card deck!
Over the last months we have been working hard to collect and analyze a great amount of input from all of you on the high-level building blocks of your ideal University of the Future. These building blocks will form the basis of the further development of the University of the Future project. To be able to use the outcomes of the divergence workshops and our internal research in an effective way we have created a card deck which we will use during the workshops in the upcoming convergence phase of the project. Are you curious about the collected building blocks? You can find the first version of the card deck in MIRO.
Co-Creation Session with professionals: Life Long Learning through Challenge-Based Learning
On June 6th, TU/e innovation Space, in collaboration with ECBO, HAN University of Applied Sciences, and Wageningen University & Research, hosted an unique co-creation session that brought together professionals active in Challenge-Based Learning (CBL) as Challenge Owners. The session was a joint initiative of the 'Learning in the innovation hub' project of TU/e innovation Space and a collaborative research initiative of ECBO, HAN, and WUR harmonizing insights from CBL practices and scholarly research.
The TU/e project aims to intensify its collaboration with its ecosystem partners to further develop education, specifically addressing the emergent needs of CBL, thereby promoting continuous learning for professionals and broadening TU/e's accessibility to industry professionals seeking skill enhancement.
An important aspect of this development is the growth of thematic ecosystems, such as sustainable industry, where students, reseachers, industry professionals, societal organizations, policy makers, citizens, and others can collaborate on challenges. The co-creation session focused on the exploration and discussion on the learning opportunities that Challenge-Based Learning offers professionals, and how we can best shape these to enhance Life Long Learning for professionals.
June 2023
June 2023
Co-creation sessions on extracurricular learning staff members
We have conducted a co-creation session with staff members at TU/e, including members of the Honors Academy, Extracurricular cluster (TU/e innovation Space), working group personal & professional development (P&PD), and employability chain. The goal of the session was to show the outcomes of the co-creation sessions with student teams, and first ideas/directions for possible educational interventions to help make extracurricular learning more explicit/visible. Next to this, we explored and ideated solutions for their more specific questions, following an institutional perspective: 1) How might we support students in identifying the competences they want to develop? 2) How might we strike a balance between providing students with structured support for learning while empowering them to pursue their individual learning paths? 3) How might we validate EC student learning, while considering the open nature of the learning experience? Next to the ideas gathered with student teams, the outcomes of this session will serve as building block towards the design of educational interventions we aim to pilot as early as September 2023.
We initiated an international working group!
We believe that it is vital to step outside our own bubble during this project. This is why we try to involve all types of stakeholders during every step of the way. An important part of this is getting inspired by, and discussing and brainstorming with, international peers. This is why we took the initiative to set up an international working group. The initial participants of this working group are very diverse with university colleagues from Singapore, India, South-Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, France, Northern-Ireland and the Netherlands. We already had an online meeting to get to know each other, but we will visit the CDIO conference in Trondheim for the official kick-off of this working group with a full-day workshop and hope to continue the collaboration permanently. Are you also interested in joining this working group? Do not hesitate to contact us!
Co-creation sessions on extracurricular learning student teams
Over a period of three months, we had a series of inspiring sessions with student teams and their members about extracurricular learning. In this sessions, we had the opportunity to discuss the personal interests and aspirations, and how students see/envision that individual learning can be organized within their teams. The sessions followed a three steps were guided by our team members, and canvases designed to support these discussions. The last step addressed the question of how to make extracurricular student learning more visible/explicit, aiming to ideate solutions –by students− for students. The outcomes of these sessions helped us identity important elements/considerations when ideating educational interventions for this learning environment.
Co-creating with stakeholders
We kicked-off the University of the Future project with a vibrant co-creation session with a wide range of stakeholders. Participants from, among others, the TU/e, Brainport, and other Higher Education Institutions provided us with valuable input by sharing the building blocks of their ideal TU/e of 2050. In their article Dreaming about the university of the future Cursor wrote about this promising kick-off.
As the winner of the first Dutch Higher Education Award, and the European Triple E Award, TU/e innovation Space is a front-runner in educational innovation.
The main reason for the leading position of TU/e innovation Space, is our strong connection with all types of stakeholders from the region as well as our (inter)national connections. In the University of the Future project we will envision and concretize the TU/e of 2050. How will this future TU/e be structured? How will the educational journey look like within this university? What role does this future TU/e have in the Brainport ecosystem? These are all questions that we want to answer.
As TU/e innovation Space we are incredibly proud, as it is a huge honor to accept this award on behalf of everyone involved in our community, from students to staff and industry partners from the Brainport Eindhoven Innovation ecosystem.
Our goals is to make an impact on both education and societal challenges. At TU/e innovation Space we provide a framework for Challenge-Based Learning (CBL), where students learn while solving real-world challenges, enabling the next generation engineers to develop the skills necessary to thrive in an ever-changing world. We facilitate innovation & entrepreneurship and stimulate our students to start projects to contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals.
