2020 Cohort
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== Strategy 2 - Online Resource Map ==
Creating the UTS 2020 Landscape canvas, interviewing students and talking to faculty members through the UIF program allowed us to understand the abundance of Innovation and Entrepreneurship resources available for students. These resources ranged from physical spaces, subjects for undergraduate and postgraduate students and events. Through meetings and online research, we were able to understand a few key issues with their resources. One of these issues was the lack of communication between students about I&E resources, facilities, events and opportunities. There are so many ways that students are able to interact and learn about I&E, but there is no current streamlined communication. This lead to the development of our problem statement "How might we connect Innovation and Entrepreunshup resources with students?" We wanted to set out to understand how to reach the most amount of students to tell them all about the I&E resources that UTS provides, in a way that is easy to understand and interpret.
2019 Fall University Innovation Fellow, Siena Reynolds, also highlighted the lack of communication between I&E opportunities and students. For her project, she created a mindmap which categorises resources based on the stages of an entrepreneur; introduction to I&E, developing your idea, incubators and pitching. Her aim was to display the mind map across campus on tv screens and physically in the iHub. My goal is to be able to build upon Siena’s project to transform it so that students can interactive with it in the current online studying climate.
The project would display the mindmap on the UTS website as an interactive mindmap for students to discover and learn more about I&E resources. The aim is to have stakeholders directly enter in events, opportunities and other resources into the database. The mindmap software will automatically classify the new event or opportunity entered accordingly. This is to the ensure the long-term sustainability of the resources and up to date information for students.
On the webpage, students will be able to click on a resource and taken to a new page where all the resources are listed and structured in a bit size way. The structure of the resource information is aimed to be easy to interpret for students, while aligning to the current web templates of the UTS website. It will include simplified visual information such as external links and virtual tours of physical spaces.
In order to maximum the reach with current uts students we need to engage with them using the channels they use the most. This includes UTS Online for Undergraduate students, Canva for Postgraduate students, Email, Facebook Groups and inclusions in Lectures. Students will be able to click on mindmap through these communication methods and it will take them to the UTS website so they can zoom in and explore all the resources.
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