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*<span style="font-size:large;">== '''#1 - Guiding, encouraging : Facilitating the feedback mechanisms and inspiring students about non-corporate career pathsmaking our voice heard in school management''' ===Our first priority focuses on the feedback mechanism between different stakeholders of our university.'''</span>**PROJECT - A periodically updated “How to” We realized that there is last of opportunities and "Where depending on this lots of bureaucratic issues take place between student and staff or staff and staff. Sometimes students do not know how and when the selection process was conducted. To solve this issue, we want to" website implement the feedback mechanism for Koc University - <span style="background-color:#ffff00;">November 2017holding people accountable and having more transparent processes. <br /span>***An updated website that guides students through skill and goal related journeys.***Listing all === '''#2: Finding a common ground for strengthening scholar-student relationships''' ===Sometimes it can be very hard to reach out to academic staff and communicate for students at Koç University. Therefore it is almost impossible to create strong bonds and increase the related courses, gatekeeper people interaction between scholars and professors, affiliated organizations, student clubs students as scholars do not seem to be human and “inside information” mention only about specific goals, skills, needstheir successes in life at events.***At this point our second priority is to form a commonground so that connecting to an academician would be accessible by everyone ''Example Case' '****''Student<br /> === '''#3: I am interested Enhancing innovation-based thinking in entrepreneurship but I dondifferent fields and keeping up with the new emerging studies'''t know if ===In our university, some majors are outside of the I am a good fit&E ecosystem. They have mainstream curriculum. However recent study areas such as legal design shows that they also need some sort of I don't know where to start. ''''Where should I start entrepreneurship E lectures or event. From this, legal design summit is an effective way to make I&E visible at Koc?'''those majors. After increasing visibility, we are planning to offer a legal design 101 as an elective course.<br /> === ''****'#4: Empowering the learning environment and variety in classes to help students to develop themselves'Platform: You can start with this article from Steve Blank. How To Start '' ===Recently in our university there is a Startup Series are a very good source trend of decline in the numbers of the area elective courses, especially in College of Engineering and in College of Sciences. This limits the learning variety of the students and eliminates the opportunity for getting them to discover their fields of interests or to know what entrepreneurship really meansinform more on their fields of interests in the university standards. In KocAlso, you can take MGMT 411 the knowledge that they have about the opportunities for the internships and 412training are found to be very limited, which makes the learning environment even more limited for them. Our university is also affiliated with KWORKSTo solve these problems, an incubation center. There are also MAVA we want to create a platform in that the instructors can interact with students and open courses that introduce design thinking project mindset that is very helpful regarding the will of students and related to starting a new venture. You in that the students can check MAVA 205. If you are also interested in social issuesbe informed about the events, you should check MAVA 420 internships and MGMT 311positions. Imece and Impact Hub are Istanbul-based social entrepreneurship hubsIn the forum part of the platform, you should look at they can also share their challenges on their websites too.''education path which can be responded by the instructors and the students in the system, which enhances the peer-learning and also makes able to take instructor feedbacks*PROJECT - A Startup career event - <span stylebr /> ==="background-color:#ffff00;">December 2017</span>'''#5: Helping students turn their good ideas into projects by increasing their knowledge and experience about the innovation process''' === ***Collaboration with career centerOpen innovation laboratory is a concept designed to support the innovative ideas of undergraduate and graduate students, entrepreneurship club, marketing club, business administration club to gather 10+ succesful startup founders contribute to an eventtheir ideas, organize an to improve themselves about the innovation challenge process, about design thinking, and to show how they can start and introduce an entrepreneurial career path by inspiring studentmove forward. In Open Innovation Labs, students will be able to benefit from many opportunities such as a wide range of teaching support, meeting with contributors, meeting with experts in innovation development.**PROJECT - Pitch Competition**PROJECT - Innovation Challenge**PROJECT - TEDx Event focusing on I&E**ALTERNATIVE PROJECTS - Future***A chatbot mobile application that creates instant answers from This idea arose because, despite the fact that our school has an incubation center, the number of innovative startups coming out of our school has decreased over the website database***Quarterly-revised handbook past years. We believe that lists all students are very successful in identifying problems and identifying possible innovative solutions, and have a broad and detailed idea of what is happening in the world and the way the information website has****"A Creative’s Guide To Thrive at Koc University"*<span style="font-size:large;">world is progressing. Here we see a lack of linkage between the our school'''#2 - Initiating, sustaining s incubation center and students who have a good problem identification and developing potential solution but have no idea about the innovation process. We believe that we can fill this gap only with a multi-disciplinary creative network.'''</span>**There is school component that can provide students with comprehensive and detailed information about the innovation process. In this Open Innovation Lab, we propose an urgent need for creative people coming from different disciplines innovation process simulation where students will experience stages such as design thinking, problem detection, seeing potential problems, and prototyping, and receive a lot of training. Expected Skills to be Gained by Students * Ability to get detect right questions to know each other and somehow interact.find underlying problems*Characteristics of a good idea*Open ideation process*PROJECT #1 - <span style="background-color:#ffff00;">November 2017</span>Engaging with new ideas and finding resolutions to the possible new obstacles*Observing and testing assumptions*Ways of finding possible solutions**Properly designed Slack group for entrepreneurial needs, inspiring articles, event announcements, feedback requestsPrototyping solutions ***PROJECT #2 - Future****Creative Newsletter==<strong>STRATEGIC PRIORITIES by 2021 Cohort</strong>==*****Can be integrated to the website****Redesigning KU Daily for a more individualized, interest-based communication platform*<span style===<span class="mw-headline" id="font-size:large;Our Perspective to Change'21">'''Our Perspective to Change</span>==={{#3 - Redesigning the ineffective indoor and outdoor spaces in the campus Widget:Youtube|id=tG2DB1Gt9LI}} <br />==='''#1: Helping students to facilitate productive co-working, creative socializing and wellbeing. get ready for their professional life'''</span>=== **For a spatially limited campus (meaning there are no free spaces around the campus Alumni-undergraduate mentorship system to enlarge the area) efficiency of currently used areas are highly important for a comfortable, creative student lifelearn from experienced people and see different perspectives.*Biweekly round table meetings between undergraduate students in cooperation with KOLT office.***PROJECT #1 - <span style="background-color:#ffff00;">Fall 2017<Themed meetings such as share your virtual experience/span>Erasmus period or instructor included special advising hours or major spesific gatherings**People will send reflections about their experience and share the contribution to their lives**Redesigning Yeni Nero spaceSpeed Networking activities for newcomers and irregular students (and others optional), mainly focusing on academic life.*****Heart Introduction of (new) opportunities to everyone in the beginning of the campus has the worst indoor designterm.*****Furnitures are terribly old and dull, not allowing comfortable eating, working in groups <br />==='''#2: Strengthen the communication between the students and even having a enjoyable coffee break.administration '''=== *A newsletter about student/human rights connected to the cases we can see in the campus and including an innovative solution/initiative to support them.****Sound isolation is terriblePeople might feel uncomfortable for some cases in their college life therefore an indirect method will be seen to solve their problems and make them feel peaceful.*****There are no socketsThe procedure will start with a scenario survey and measure the students' awareness about certain problems.*****Even it is a large are at the heart <br />==='''#3: Reaching people who share a desire to create change in the campus and learn innovation'''=== *An innovation community which involves both students and alumni entrepreneurs to both share the passion of change and show the school, it is not facilitated for workshops, artistic eventsmethods that have been successful.*****Interior decoration is not inspiring.****PROJECT #2<br />*****Building small transparent containers in the dormitory area****PROJECT ==='''#34: Facilitating students' experince during back to school period and creating a more inclusive campus'''=== *An online campus map especially for newcomers and students who forgot where is where since our campus is big enough to being confused about the location :)****Designing empty spaces that will be created due to There is a mentorship program which involves 6-8 students in each group and an undergraduate mentor (a junior or higher), however the moving of science labs to system doesn't work well and the new buildingexperience is not the same for everyone.*<span style="font-size:large;">'''#4 - Informing*With the cooperation of current mentors and Newcomer Advising Center, promoting a more efficient program will be planned and integrating “social impact” in pivoted with the campusfeedbacks of current groups for further years.''' <br /span>**PROJECT - Draft==<strong>STRATEGIC PRIORITIES by 2020 Cohort</strong>==***Social Impact Quotient****Not only GPA for students****SIQ that measures each student’s impact on his community, campus and environment.*===<span styleclass="fontmw-size:large;headline">'''#5 - Facilitating online & offline intersections for the curriculum with new e-learning technologies, platforms, organizations.'''id="Project_Pitch_Video">Project Pitch Video Fall 2020</span>===**PROJECT - Draft{{#Widget:Youtube|id=eslYSaxCCT0}}***Hybrid academic and skill-related e-learning certificate programs.****Connecting courses, *===<big><p><span style="font-size:large;"strong>'''''#6 -1  ndash;''Designing Enabling our students to better plan and building a creative space that will allow multi-disciplinary collaboration, 7manage their time</strong></p></24 co-working, organizing workshops, hosting maker projects, incubating student startups, intersecting with related courses for alternative educative methodologies.'''big>=== <ul></spanli>**PROJECT IDEA - KULENDAR:<span style="background-color:#ffff00;"ul><li>Fall 2017 & Spring 2018A calendar portal where all events in our school along with class times, deadlines and exams can be seen.</spanli>***Community Space<li>Problem:<ul>*<span style="font-sizeli>Student Side:large;"<ul><li>'''#7 - Empowering administrative and academic staff with I&E related content, workshops, programs for creating a more coherent campus visionThere are too many events in our school which makes it very hard to keep track.'''</spanli>**PROJECT IDEA - Draft<li>Only common ground for promoting events are through email, which leads to many people getting emails that do not relate to them, thus missing the events that they would like to attend</li>***Global Learning and Leadership Certificate Program <li>Students cannot plan the events they would like to attend ahead of time.</li><li>Students have a hard time keeping track of their deadlines for school different courses.</li></ul></li><li>School Administration and Student Clubs Side:<ul><li>Many departments do not have the prior data about student’s vacant times to better plan their events.</li><li>Club activities department lose a lot of time sending club activities mails that can be easily automated</li></ul></li><li>Progress:<ul><li>Connections with IT Department established</li><li>Kick off meeting where use cases and MVP will be planned is set.</li><li>Team recruiting efforts have begun.</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul>[[File:Kulendar.png|thumb|KULendar prototype]]===<big><p><strong>#2 – Facilitating the feedback mechanisms and making our voice heard in school management </strong></p></big>=== <ul><li>PROJECT IDEA - KUForum:<ul><li>A forum where students can ask their questions in categories and get answers that can be upvoted and post their complaints to the complaints board which will also move up as more people support the issue.</li><li>Problem:<ul><li>Student Side:<ul><li>Lack of questionnaires directed to students or examination of the problem before critical decisions by the school management</li><li>Lack of efficient representation of student voice in decision making process</li><li>Inefficient complaint resolving systems</li><li>Inability to reach answers of previously asked common problems</li></ul></li><li>School Administration Side:<ul><li>Inability to identify who and how many people suffer from issues.</li><li>Inability to get agile feedback</li><li>Difficulty of identifying most critical problems</li><li>Recurring mails from students which are usually sent to unrelated people</li></ul></li><li>Progress:<ul><li>Connections with IT Department and Student Dean established</li><li>Mechanisms of student complaints or questions being resolved is currently being defined.</li><li>IT Support for hosting and customization of digital solutions has been promised</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul>===<p><strong>#3 – Helping students to reach an international network</strong></p>===<ul><li>PROJECT IDEA – International Workshops<ul><li>Online International workshops in different areas such as sustainability, design thinking etc. coordinated with other UIF Fellows with the help of research centers in our school</li><li>Problem:<ul><li>The question that comes with online education of whether the university education is necessary while you can learn things from online education platforms at the fraction of the cost.</li></ul></li><li>In response to this problem, we want to help our schools’ students to retain the network opportunity that universities provide by using the advantages of the online era and our connections with UIF.</li></ul></li></ul>===<p><strong>#4 – Realizing our students’ problems and improving their well-being</strong></p>===<ul><li>PROJECT IDEA – Wellbeing week<ul><li>Wellbeing exercises and workshops through the finals and midterm weeks that our school is mostly very stressful.</li></ul></li><li>PROJECT IDEA – Wellbeing Club<ul><li>A wellbeing club that shares information with each other on wellbeing, does Yoga or meditation together 😊</li></ul></li></ul>===<p><strong>#5 – Informing students about the Innovation & Entrepreneurship opportunities in our school</strong></p>===<ul><li>PROJECT IDEA – I&E Online Manual<ul><li>A manual that improves upon the landscape canvas we prepared containing information on entrepreneurship and innovation related coursework, departments, incubation centers and the paths and counselling they can take.</li><li>Progress:<ul><li>Established connections with the director of KWORKS, our school’s incubation center and College of Administrative Sciences Dean.</li><li>Currently recruiting the team to design the manual and gather information on the existing opportunities.</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul><p> </p><p> </p> ==<p><strong>STRATEGIC PRIORITIES by 2019 Cohort</strong></p>==<p><strong>#1 - Accessing Student Clubs.</strong></p><ul><li>PROJECT IDEA - Club Activity Page:<ul><li>Provide a platform where each club can have a voice and talk about their goals,old projects and upcoming events.</li></ul></li></ul><p><strong>#2 - Labs about innovation and impact are not known around the school. </strong></p><ul><li>PROJECT IDEA - Scavenger Lab Hunt<ul><li>Arrange a orienteering/scavenger hunt. In the beginning of each new school year there during the orientation process.</li></ul></li></ul><p><strong>#3 - Combining knowledge and skills in practice.</strong></p><ul><li>PROJECT IDEA - A program combining different majors and leading by a mentor who can guide about designing an upcoming project. </li></ul><p><strong>#4 - Place/workshop to meet students who have common interests and make them to design a project and to do a prototype.</strong></p><p>PROJECT IDEA - Design courses or conduct workshops to make students experience the information which they got from the lecture.</p><p><strong> </strong></p>==<p><strong>STRATEGIC PRIORITIES by 2017 Cohort</strong></p>==<p><strong>#1 - Guiding, encouraging and inspiring students about non-corporate career paths.</strong></p><ul><li>PROJECT - Innovation & Entrepreneurship Manual October 2020<ul><li>A manual containing information on entrepreneurship and innovation related coursework and departments.</li></ul></li><li>PROJECT - Innovation & Entrepreneurship Board October 2019<ul><li>A board to share information about entrepreneurship and innovation activities with an inspirational & motivational quote to catch people’s attention.</li></ul></li><li>PROJECT - A periodically updated “How to” and "Where to" website for Koc University - November 2017<ul><li>An updated website that guides students through skill and goal related journeys.</li><li>Listing all the related courses, gatekeeper people and professors, affiliated organizations, student clubs and “inside information” about specific goals, skills, needs.<ul><li><em>Example Case</em><ul><li><em>Student: I am interested in entrepreneurship, but I do not know if I am a good fit. I do not know where to start. '<strong>Where should I start entrepreneurship or design at Koc?</strong></em></li><li><em>Platform: You can start with this article from Steve Blank. How to Start a Startup Series are a very good source for getting to know what entrepreneurship really means? In Koc, you can take MGMT 411 and 412. Our university is also affiliated with KWORKS, an incubation center. There are also MAVA courses that introduce design thinking project mindset that is very helpful and related to starting a new venture. You can check MAVA 205. If you are also interested in social issues, you should check MAVA 420 and MGMT 311. Imece and Impact Hub are Istanbul-based social entrepreneurship hubs, you should look at their websites too.</em></li></ul></li><li>PROJECT - A Startup career event - December 2017<ul><li>Collaborating with career center, entrepreneurship club, marketing club, business administration club to gather 10+ startup founders with students to introduce succesful entrepreneurial career paths, hold pitch & innovation challenges with them.</li></ul></li><li>PROJECT - TEDx event focused on I&E</li><li>PROJECT - Pitch competition</li><li>PROJECT - Innovation challenge</li><li>ALTERNATIVE PROJECTS <ul><li>A chatbot mobile application that creates instant answers from the website database</li><li>Quarterly revised handbook that lists all the information website has<ul><li>"A Creative’s Guide to Thrive at Koc University"</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul><p><strong>#2 - Initiating, sustaining, and developing a multi-disciplinary creative network.</strong> </p><p>There is this an urgent need for creative people coming from different disciplines to get to know each other and somehow interact.</p><ul><li>PROJECT #1 - Slack - November 2017<ul><li>Properly designed Slack group for entrepreneurial needs, inspiring articles, event announcements, feedback requests</li></ul></li><li>PROJECT #2 - Creative Newsletter<ul><li>Can be integrated to the website</li></ul></li><li>PROJECT #3 - Redesigning KU Daily <ul><li>For a more individualized, interest-based communication platform</li></ul></li></ul><p><strong>#3 - Redesigning the ineffective indoor and outdoor spaces in the campus to facilitate productive co-working, creative socializing, and wellbeing.</strong></p><ul><li>For a spatially limited campus (meaning there are no free spaces around the campus to enlarge the area) efficiency of currently used areas are highly important for a comfortable, creative student life.</li><li>PROJECT #1 - Redesigning Yeni Nero space<ul><li>Heart of the campus has the worst indoor design.</li><li>Furnitures are terribly old and dull, not allowing comfortable eating, working in groups and even having a enjoyable coffee break.</li><li>Sound isolation is terrible.</li><li>There are no sockets.</li><li>Even it is a large are at the heart of the school, it is not facilitated for workshops, artistic events.</li><li>Interior decoration is not inspiring.</li></ul></li><li>PROJECT #2 - Building small transparent containers in the dormitory area - Fall 2017</li><li>PROJECT #3 - Designing empty spaces that will be created due to the moving of science labs to the new building. - Spring 2017</li></ul><p><strong>#4 - Informing, promoting, and integrating “social impact” in the campus.</strong> </p><ul><li>PROJECT - Social Impact Quotient – 2017<ul><li>Not only GPA for students</li><li>SIQ that measures each student’s impact on his community, campus and environment.</li></ul></li></ul><p><strong>#5 - Facilitating online & offline intersections for the curriculum with new e-learning technologies, platforms, organizations.</strong></p><ul><li>PROJECT - Hybrid academic and skill-related e-learning certificate programs.<ul><li>Connecting courses, e-learning platforms, organizations, clubs, companies and more with condensed certificate programs.</li></ul></li></ul><p><strong><em>#6 - </em></strong><strong>Designing and building a creative space that will allow multi-disciplinary collaboration, 7/24 co-working, organizing workshops, hosting maker projects, incubating student startups, intersecting with related courses for alternative educative methodologies.</strong></p><ul><li>PROJECT - Community Space - Fall 2017 & Spring 2018</li></ul><p><strong>#7 - Empowering administrative and academic staff with I&E related content, workshops, programs for creating a more coherent campus vision.</strong></p><ul><li>PROJECT IDEA - Global Learning and Leadership Program for school employees</li></ul><p> </p> <br />[[Category:Pages with broken file links|Pages_with_broken_file_links]]<br />[[Category:Universities]][[Category:Schools]][[Category:Koç_University]]{{CatTree|Koç_University}}