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Raimund Hudak, DHBW Germany

Open Educational Ideas and Innovations” Day 7th. September in Berlin

Plenary Session

“Open collaboration among students and educators on research”

1. Open Education (OE) – An emerging paradigm at the

DHBW?

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Cooperative Higher Education: Theory and Practice IntegratedTHEORETICAL KNOWLEDGE &PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE

• At DHBW - academic knowledge is conveyed by more than 700 full-time professors and 9,000 associate lecturers.

• Work placement at one of over 9,000 partner companies and social institutions enables the students to reality-test their careers.

• This guarantees that the students are provided applied and up-to-date knowledge from the chosen professional field.

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What is Cooperative Higher Education at the DHBW? Academic Learning + Workplace Training

THEORETICAL KNOWLEDGE

Intensive 3-month phases of academic learning at one of the 12 DHBW locations and campuses

PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE

3-month work placements at one of over 9,000 partner companies and social institutions (‘corporate partners’)

ACADEMICLEARNING

WORKPLACE TRAINING

Integration of Theory & Practice

in the Curriculum

+

PHE Institutions World of work

Employee / Student

CooperationCollaboration

among Employers,

HE Institutions,Students

Faculty DevelopmentBusiness Development

Skills Skills

Skills

Self Development

Education & Training

Quality Quality

Quality

Human Resource Management

Needs Needs

Needs

Demands

Demands

Demands

2. OE - A systems‘ challenge!

Ownership

OER re-use is not yet a common practice in Professional Higher Education Institutions (PHE) and the world of work (enterprises)

• Safety and copyright concerns

• Not-invented-here syndrome

• Lack of appreciation and recognition in the community

• Sharing complete resources might not be the solution for the world of work

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Faculty Perspective (DHBW)Collaboration with the world of work Highly qualified specialists and

executive managers from partner companies collaborate with PHE

Freelance experts and professionals from cooperating companies are involved in teaching and research

Former employees willing to pass on their longtime experience and field-related expertise

World of Work Perspective Integration – the Role of the Enterprises

(Legal) framework for cooperation with the PHE institution:

Working contract for study with students

Responsibility for designing study programs with educators

Accreditation of practice study phases

Accreditation of applied research projects

Student Perspective (DHBW)Graduates Goals

Become a highly qualified employee and fullfill the employer demands from the beginning of the carreer

Market oriented depth of latest knowledge and best pratices

Ability to act successfull

across disciplins, contexts and

systems

Are we fit for OE at PHE institutions in Germany?

Transfer Tutor Coach

Factual Knowledge(„know-that“)

Proceedures, Problems(„know-how“)

Social Practice(„knowing-in-action“)

Instruction Dialogue Interaction

Know, Remember Simulate/Train, Problemsolving Reflective Action, invent

Teaching I Teaching II Teaching III

Focus on Theory Focus on Practice and Competence

3. Collaboration with students and the world of work

Sample Case 1: Collaboration among different institutions and students – Case Study Method

The case method describes real management issues in real companies.

Cases are used as a basis for class discussion and give participants the opportunity to take on the roles of key players in actual business situations.

Students perform the necessary analysis - examining the causes and considering alternative courses of actions to come to a set of recommendations

Sample Case 2: Collaboration among institution, world of work and student – Research Project

• The research agenda will give guidance to the collaborators how to approach the research.

• Key Questions to be clarified among collaborators: » What are the research project topics?» What are the research questions and objectives?» What are major resources to be used?

• The context of compiling various ideas is providing students, educators and managers with different perspectives and content for the research in an efficient way of collaboration.

Key Questions

• What kind of difficulties and barriers did we face with OER re-use, sharing and collaboration?

• How can we facilitate better collaborations?