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The Open School Nizar Abdelkafi, Michael Bartl, Johann Füller, Christoph Ihl
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The aim of the Open School project is to strengthen the openness of universities to its students. In an Open School, students do not take a passive role as service consumers; they are active, and empowered members of their university. Hence, the open school reflects a new mindset in higher education enabled by the usage of latest crowdsourcing technologies. The web-based IDEANET platform is an adequate system to support universities in launching an Open School project. Three case studies conducted at German higher education institutions demonstrate the feasibility of the concept in practice. The case studies show that students are willing to contribute with their ideas to different issues, ranging from new entrepreneurial business models, improvements of study conditions or creation of new teaching, and research methods. Including grading systems and possibilities for students to realize their ideas in practice are promising, and effective reward mechanisms to steer student participation. In some circumstances, however, the use of grades as a reward can give rise to conflicts among students, and hence needs to be carefully designed.
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The Open School
Nizar Abdelkafi, Michael Bartl, Johann Füller, Christoph Ihl
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Agenda
• The Current Situation and the Vision• The Open School Objectives• What is the Open School good for?• Case Studies• Scientific Results and Future Research• Open School Project: “Small” Funding BIG Impact• Publications and Presentations
The Current Situation and the Vision
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• Students:
- Undergraduates - Graduates- PhDs - Study programs
-…
• University:
- Administration- Teaching and
research staff- Library- …
The university’s system
Offline relationships and basic online interactions
• University Subsystem (Students):
- Undergraduates - Graduates- PhDs - Study programs- …
•University Subsystem 1 (Staff):
- Administration- Teaching and
research staff- Library- …
The university’s system
Offline relationships and sophisticated online interactions based on the technologies supporting open source development, open content generation, and innovation contests
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The Open School Objectives
To develop a Student community platform, operated by universities
• The students can actively contribute to research and practical activities in order to develop innovative solutions to diverse problems.
• The activities published on the platform may be posted by the university’s administration, teaching and research departments, industrial companies, general public, or students themselves.
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Selected Benefits
Examples of Problems/ActivitiesInitiator of the Task
Students’ Contribution over the Platform
Students complain about the lecturer’s slides to be abstract or difficult to understand.
Teaching staff
Students improve the learning resources by creating new material or enhancing existing ones; the teaching staff decides on the modifications to be adopted.
Case studies are required for the purpose of teaching and research.
Research or teaching staff
Students contribute to writing case studies. During trainees, project studies, bachelor or master theses, students gather practical experiences and gain new insights that can serve for the development of case studies.
Software is required to support the automation of a new methodology developed within a research project.
Research staff
Students develop a new software or improve an existing one according to the open source principles.
Students are unsatisfied with the long waiting times in the canteen.
Canteen’s staff
Students contribute with ideas to reduce the length of queues or simulate the canteen’s food counters and checkouts in order to propose effective strategies.
Students complain about long waiting times between ordering and getting library books.
Library staffStudents work out ideas in order to reduce the time until getting the book titles.
A commercial company looks for new applications for its product.
IndustryStudents develop new ideas how the product may be used in a different way than so far.
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But…
• …does the idea work in practice?• Is there any evidence that students will participate in
such an initiative?• What are the kind of activities students are most
interested in?
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Case Studies
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
• Development of business concepts for service innovations based on smart phones,
• In winter semester 2009/2010, 241 submissions from students in the fields of education, entertainment, and healthcare
RWTH Aachen
• Submission of ideas that aim to improve the university’s life conditions and processes
• Participation of almost 60 students (RWTH 2.0, the digital university!!!)
HHL-Leipzig Graduate School of Management
• Co-creation of management knowledge in close collaboration between academia and practice,
• Students actively contributed to case writing seminars
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Results
• Students are willing to use the platform; they are able to generate original ideas.
• Open school projects, using voluntary participation and competition among students can work in the practice.
• The use of grades, as a means to push motivation among students, can sometimes lead to conflicts.
• Students can contribute to the creation of high quality research and teaching materials
• The IDEANET platform generates big volumes of data that can be analyzed to answer diverse research questions related to online communities
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Future Research
• The identification of new problems is, at least, as important as finding innovative solutions. Thus, why not a contest, in which students participate to ask questions and find problems.
• Implementation of the open school platform in a small class (30 Students); this is an ideal setting to compare students’ profiles in real life with their online behavior The experimental setting at the university of Leipzig in winter semester 2010/2011 within the context of an innovation management lecture.
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Open School Project: “Small” Funding BIG Impact
• Looking for the Big Impact: The open school project gave the idea to submit a proposal to apply for an European project
• Project: PARENIS – Development and Implementation of a Program Advancing Research Education and Exploitation for the Support of National Innovation Systems
• EU-Program: TEMPUS
• Consortium: 12 Partners from 7 countries (Germany, Italy, Spain, UK, France, Tunisia and Morocco)
• Project Contents: Introduction of lectures on research methods in Tunisia and Morocco, research stays for PhD students, Initiation of innovation labs with industry, and Implementation of the Open School Platform, as a method to facilitate innovation and technology transfer.
• Project duration: 3 years
• Submission: March 2010; Acceptance for funding: July 2010
• Project volume: € 972.052,73
• Tempus Grant: € 869.111,73
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Publications, Presentations and Reports:
• Presentation slides and video record of the Presentation “Open Source Innovation and Open School” during the Meeting of the Peter-Pribilla-foundation on 13. April 2010 in Tunis
• Presentation in the workshop “Service Innovation & Open Collective Work” INFORMATIK 2010 | Service Science – Neue Perspektiven für die Informatik 40. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik „The Open School Vision – For More Openess at Universities“
• Protocol of the project meeting on 28.05.2010 at HYVE AG in Munich
• Abdelkafi, Nizar / Bartl, Michael / Füller, Johann / Ihl, Christoph / Rieger, Markus (2010): The Open School Vision – For More Openess at Universities, in Klaus-Peter Fähnrich and Bogdan Franczyk (Ed.): Proceedings of Informatik 2010 : Service Science – Neue Perspektiven für die Informatik, Band 1, pp. 949-955.
