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Robert StoyanRobert Stoyan: Intensive small group teaching in leadership and PM,
for many students at low cost
Contents
1. facts about the course
2. didactical challenges and solutions
3. outlook
Robert Stoyan: Intensive small group teaching in leadership and PM, for many students at low cost
Course
course:
develop leadership and project management skills
regular students of bachelor and master studies
all study fields
didactical method: „Tutor Pyramid“
Course Contents
leadershipmoderating meetingslearn to know your leadership styleselecting team memberstalking to customershandling project crises…
project management (alternatively AC)effort estimatesproject plansmanagement summariesrisk analysis…
study projectapply all the above in a real project
25 hours
classroom
20 hours
homework
35 hours
homework
„All you need to know to lead a small project yourself“
Participation
250 participants (2007) from 2 swiss universities
160 participants (2006) from all fields of study of Zurich University
25 participants (2005) from Computer Science
participation in course is voluntary
Teaching Methods
class room lectures (on leadership):1 tutor teaches 6 participantsminimal lecturing: theory read at home + few minutes intromost of the time: role plays&group work, feedback&reflectionno grading, to avoid stress
homework (on project management): rework till perfect result, zero errors accepted
study project: project team of 4-5 studentschanging PMuniform study projects, but real productlive coaching + feedback on meeting protocolls, etc.
All time is used to develop skills (and not bare knowledge!) different teaching methods
Participant Perception (2006)
“In comparison with the other academic courses taken so far, the value of this course for me was:
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3 = lower2 = much lower1 = the lowest
Preview of New Evaluations (2007)
significant learning effects, measured by assessment center
survey of skill usage in real life
Contents
1. facts about the course
2. didactical challenges and solutions- how to teach that many students?- how to educate the teachers?- how to ensure quality?- how to handle limitations?
3. outlook
Robert Stoyan: Intensive small group teaching in leadership and PM, for many students at low cost
Tutor Pyramid
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up to 430 participants
up to 45 student tutors
up to 7 student course leaders (experienced student tutors)
1 staff member
...work for free / credit points
written instructions, handoutspowerpoint presentationsmultimedia materialse-learning applicationsname cards, T-shirts, …
Effort
staff effort:course execution: ~ 1 fulltime month course development + research: ~ 3 fulltime months
3 student assistants helped me, in total 200 hours of work
Summary of course execution effort:Pay 1/6 of the teaching force (course leaders, assistants, me)~ 1 month staff effort
Big effort: preparation and testing of the lectures
Fast-Trained-Tutors (FTT)
Selection of tutors in (small) assessment center
Train-the-trainer course directly before the course
Skip university practice of using last year‘s participants as tutors!
Better teaching quality
Rapid growth of the course
Cookbook Recipes or Situative Leadership?
Fast-trained-tutors (FTT)no project managersno professional teachers can execute predefined & well-trained didactical tasks
Teach only cookbook recipes?? No! (and yes…)examples:
how to tackle an issue with a team member:constructivist approach: everyone creates his/her own reality„systemic questions“ – e.g. „What might your customer think about the problem?“
leadership stylesdo not teach them which style is the right onerole play + peer feedback on student‘s leadership stylerole play to try out different leadership styles
Cookbook Recipes or Situative Leadership?
Summary:
We can provide full teaching value With the exception of:
unforeseen questions freely chosen student projects
To design a lecture for FTT:find the right domain: do, don‘t, milestones, think, questions, participant experiencesto identify „a cookbook recipe“
Contents
1. facts about the course
2. didactical challenges and solutions
3. outlook
Robert Stoyan: Intensive small group teaching in leadership and PM, for many students at low cost
Outlook - What Others DoCourse Open
Univ.Accen-
tureSemmel-
weisMedicalUniv.Hungary
ZurichUniv.
Distance learning / classroom learning
distance class-room
class-room
both
Number of students per course 400 300 70 250
students per teacher (classroom)
15 12 6
Group teachers are students too No No Yes Yes
teach PM Yes Yes No Yes
teach leadership No Yes Yes Yes
Outlook
Spread the course to further swiss universities
develop an e-learning and e-assessment game do „real“ PM actions at the computermeasure behaviour„wikipedia principle“ - expandable by the users:
game contents development = study projects of 2007 and 2008 250 students work 35 hours eachstudents do:
import course contentsmodel their own real reactions to a leader‘s actiondevelop game storiesdo part of the quality assurance