International STEM Summer School

Learning with case studies

Monat: April 2017

28. April 2017 – Christin Nenner

The international STEM Sumer School is in full swing

A lot has happened during the last few weeks…

  • In calendar week 14, we had 3 WARM-UP sessions to introduce e-learning tools, such as virtual classroom, wiki, forum, and e-portfolio.
  • To our KICK-OFF event on April 11, we welcomed 13 highly motivated STEM students (yes, more! =)) in seven different countries. During the KICK-OFF, representatives from globally operating companies presented their cases and the student tutors the teams, who will deal with the cases in virtual teamwork.

To get an impression of the KICK-OFF event on April 11, some pictures.

An international project – The pins mark the locations of the participants, consultants, and tutors.

An exclusively virtual project – the e-learning tools for the implementation of the project are introduced.

Since then, the teams meet regularly in the virtual classroom. And there are also initial successes…

  • The teams got to know each other and developed a guideline to work together.
  • The cases were individually analyzed by each participant and within the team.
  • Each participant reflected on her/his experiences and professional expertise within solving individual weekly tasks.
  • Each team has developed an approach to solve the respective case.

Now, the hot processing phase solving the cases can start!

 

06. April 2017 – Christin Nenner

Warming up for the second round of the international STEM Summer School

We are pleased to welcome 12 highly motivated STEM students from all over the world at our international STEM Summer School.

warming up (www.pixabay.com)

At the moment we all are getting familiar with the online course and the used e-learning tools, such as virtual classroom, wiki, forum, and e-portfolio, within our WARM-UP week. Furthermore, the participants are getting to know each other as well as the basics of working together in virtual groups.

In the following nine weeks our 12 STEM students from different nations and universities will work together on interdisciplinary case studies, which are based on real life events and experiences of industry partners.

We all are looking forward to an exciting and eventful STEM Summer School starting with the KICK-OFF on 11 April 2017, 12 a.m. (UTC/GMT + 2 hours)!