Instructional Impact and Innovation Pipeline visual. How to apply this process to your institution / open source project to do more with less while equipping students with the skills needed to jump into industry:
1️⃣ Find an application leveraged by a university *that you can influence and improve*.
2️⃣ Find courses and instructors who are teaching skills that could be leveraged to improve that application
3️⃣ Slight modification to assignment scope to direct outputs to be towards solving those real-world problems
4️⃣ Apply those improvements to the problem using solutions directly or indirectly from class
5️⃣ Tell the story in class, illustrating the connective tissue between problems in the real world, classroom skills, and their part in creating a better world by solving a problem around them
This is effectively what we're doing with HAX The Web and the work that Bill Rose Jennifer Frank Dave Fusco Winston White Alyssa Foran Firaol Tulu Firew Chloe Martin and I are engaged in. Taking a need in the workplace, leveraging the classroom environment to structure projects to help in pursuit of that problem, implementing those solutions back into the class and then talking about it to further the impact!
My guess is this methodology can be scaled to non-technical sectors as well but teaching in an information college, and working on a platform to reduce costs and improve quality of online educational materials, certainly makes it a bit easier to see a path emerge.
Students want authenticity, impact, and to understand how their skills connect to the real world.
This methodology has been able to scale a community from an idea on a piece of paper to dozens of career professionals in the field leveraging skills they honed in helping to produce an ecosystem that has delivered high quality, accessible experiences in a low cost hosting format to a minimum of 67k+ students in the past 5 years.
The story keeps being written and we'd love to have you join the chorus of students improving the fabric of the web, lowering the cost of education, and improving ubiquity of web authoring all while enhancing their careers to better position themselves for the marketplace.
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