TRAIN-THE-TRAINER CONCEPT IN HIGHER EDUCATION: LEARNING THROUGH COACHING
Prof. Dr. Mahsa Fischer, Prof. Dr. Nicole Ondrusch, Kerstin Steimle
SPEAKERS
Prof. Dr. Mahsa Fischer
Professor for Information Systems – Development of Mobile and Web-based Enterprise Applications
Design Thinking Coach
Prof. Dr. Nicole Ondrusch
Professor for Applied Computer Science and Digital Transformation
Training and Coaching in Design Thinking
AGENDA
ü Challenge: Introduction & motivation ü Our Solution: Train-the-Trainer concept ü Case Study: Our context & experiment.
ü Results: Key Learnings & Experience ü Your Feedback
TRAINERS' LEARNING & COACHING JOURNEY
THE CONCEPT IN ACTION – OUR CASE STUDIES
Case Study 1: Software Engineering &
Mobile Systems
Case Study 2: Design Thinking
Major Business Informatics Software Engineering
Students 90 65
Junior Coaches 4, each dedicated to 4 teams for the entire semester
6, some dedicated to 4 team, others to 2 teams
Team Size 16 teams of 5-7 members 15 teams of 3-5 members Lecture Goal Mobile App development in theory and praxis Learn Design Thinking Project work Free choice of topics based on 17
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Teams had 14 weeks for accomplishing the project with 3 hours of weekly coaching.
Free choice of defined topics in the area of social or local challenges
Teams had one full week of input and
coaching in Design Thinking and 8 weeks to finish their project.
KEY LEARNINGS: STUDENT'S INTERVIEWS
Platzhalter Video 4 Minuten
EVALUATION: SURVEY AND INTERVIEWS
Workload & Benefit
§ scales for large events with many students as it was the case with our courses of 90 and 65 students.
§ for the Junior Coaches, the effort was very high. But the learning curve was also steep.
Learning success of students and Junior Coaches
§ learning from challenges with social background.
§ students appreciated the possibility to ask Junior Coaches "trivial questions".
§ 49 out of 55 students recommend keeping the concept of defining a large project for the whole semester for a team of students to work on it.
Deepening knowledge & more insight for Junior Coaches:
§ Junior Coaches could improve their argumentation skills.
§ The junior coaches stated that they had acquired a much deeper understanding of design thinking through working with the students.
Satisfaction of students and Junior Coaches:
§ Junior Coaches who decided to participate in the program were very engaged and motivated and chose a lot of extra coachings.
§ because of the high workload, 2 tutors of the second case study decided against participating in the train- the-trainer training program.
KEY LEARNINGS: STUDENT'S INTERVIEWS
FEEDBACK GRID – AND FURTHER QUESTIONS
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RESEARCH TEAM
Prof. Dr. Mahsa Fischer
Professor for Information Systems:
Development of Mobile and Web- based Enterprise Applications
Prof. Dr. Nicole Ondrusch
Professor for Applied Computer Science and Digital
Transformation
Kerstin Steimle Research Associate Digital Learning and Assessment in Higher Education
Please refer any questions to:
Prof. Dr. Mahsa Fischer
Faculty: Business and Transport Management Email: Mahsa.Fischer@hs-heilbronn.de
Web: https://www.hs-heilbronn.de/mahsa.fischer
THANK YOU!
