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=Project Name: Innovation Hub and Social Labs at NIDA Business School=
'''A Technological Data-Driven Design Journey for Teaching and Learning Emerging Technology Initiatives'''
''Project by Faculty Innovation Fellows Candidate [[Faculty Champion:Jongsawas Chongwatpol|Jongsawas Chongwatpol]]''
* Technological Data Driven Design Curriculums
* DT activities and toolsets used to cover the following “Technological Data Driven Design” spaces: Problem Space, Data Space, Analytics Space, Technology Space, and User Space
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= Project Name: Boost Up Soft Skills for Future Workforce=
''Project by Faculty Innovation Fellows Candidate [[Faculty Champion:Chanansara Oranop na ayutthaya|Chanansara Oranop na ayutthaya]]''
===Why is this project important to you, your department, & your Fellows?===
The more the future of work becomes automated, the more important people with intensive soft skills are needed and essential because the soft skills, such as emotional intelligence, empathy, adaptability, digital and data literacy, communication and creative thinking, cannot be replicated by machines. Universities are required not only to train students to possess academic skills, but also are responsible to provide non-academic support to the students for building stronger soft skills.
This project aims to develop co-curricular activities to equip the students in the campus, specifically my school’s students - Graduate School of Communication Arts and Management Innovation (GSCM), with a set of essential soft skills in order that they will gain competitive advantages in their occupation.
===Description===
'''Objectives of the project includes'''
* To empathize the students’ need for soft skills development and to provide non-academic support to enhance the students’ soft skills.
* To collaborate and build a network among relevant stakeholders, including the school’s alumni and student affairs, to support the students’ soft skills development.
'''Key activities'''
* My project employs the design thinking framework and tools to help the target students design their journey in developing soft skills during their life on campus. A series of workshops will be provided to the target students, including two workshops for empathy and ideation; two training workshops, one prototyping workshop, and one reflection workshop, respectively.
'''Expected outcomes'''
* The expected outcome is for students to develop some essential soft skills to meet the demand from the industry and progress in their career path. Also, I will learn some lessons on how to design co-curricular activities to support the student’s development, with hopes that this will become a distinguished value proposition of my campus to prospective students.
===Stakeholders served===
* Students in GSCM’s master programs
* Students from other faculties in NIDA
===Key Milestones===
* December 2021: Project Kick-off, Running two workshops for empathy and ideation
** Get Approval from the faculty’s committee, then Kick-off the project. Two workshops will be organized. The first workshop is to empathize with our target students on what their pain, gain and expectation about non-academic support from the school, specifically the need for soft skills enhancement. Another workshop will be an ideation session for brainstorming some ideas for the next step. The result will be shared with Dr.Bongkot, one of the members of FIF cohort 2023 from NIDA.
* March 2022: Design training workshop and PR
** After getting insights, I will collaborate with Dr.Bongkot and NIDA’s student affairs to conduct a session to identify the need for soft skills training and design learning journeys in the workshops which will be conducted in Summer. Then, the workshops will be promoted to the target students in the campus for recruiting the workshop participants.
* June 2022: Run the training workshops
** There will be two tracks of the workshops. One is of Dr.Bongkot, another is mine which include 2 different topics. The target students can choose one or both tracks and collect digital badges of each track for graduation. I also plan to invite NIDA alumni to share their experience in the workshops. After the training workshops, all participants will join in a session for prototyping their own journey to practice soft skills.
* September 2022: Test the prototype and Join a reflection workshop
** The participants will test their prototype during the semester, and then join a reflection workshop to share some lessons learned with other participants.
* December 2022: Final reflection & Celebration
** A wrap-up session will be conducted, and celebrate the participants who collect each track’s digital badges and join the reflection workshop.
* March 2023: Report to FIF community and prepare for new cohort
===An Innovation Portfolio ===
Templates and tools in design thinking concepts such as empathy map, brainstorming techniques will be employed. In online workshops, Miro or Mural boards will be used to work collaboratively. Also, gamification will be integrated into the workshop such as digital badges collections for achievements. To build a community among the students and invited alumni, some chat apps, or FB groups will be used for communication and fostering their connections.
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= Project Name: Skill Up by SHRD=
''Project by Faculty Innovation Fellows Candidate [[Faculty_Champion:Bongkot_Jenjarrussakul|Bongkot Jenjarrussakul]]''
===Why is this project important to you, your department, & your Fellows?===
Due to the rapid change of work and society, the students must create solutions that fit specific problems for their organization. Soft skills such as creativity, digital and data literacy, and a growth mindset become essential. On the other hand, to serve our institute's goal of becoming a world-class university, our department has to improve our quality to fit a standard such as ASEAN University Network Quality Assurance (AUNQA) and other standards required as our quality control. One of its criteria in the AUNQA is "Student Support Services," which focuses on enhancing the learning experience and employability.
As most of my courses focus on creativity, thinking skills, and digital soft skills, this project could be a source of data to redesign my courses, reconnect alumni, and build my credibility in the mentioned areas. The department can benefit from this project as extra-curricular activities. Furthermore, the project could also enhance the connection between the department, and current students. Such connection, in return, will benefit the department and me as it could be a point of initiation for my further work and research.
This project is planned to be either an independent or a collaborative project with Sara, who is an applicant in the same cohort. In the case of a collaboration, several activities and resources can be shared. Therefore, the project will allow us to learn, apply, and test our ideas based on design thinking concepts. We also welcome our senior fellows and others who interest in joining.
===Description===
'"Skill Up by SHRD'" is a project which aims at enhancing students' soft skills. Although the department's name of SHRD is used as part of the project name, this project is opened to students from all departments. Another main objective is to create a network between the department, current students, and alumni (in case they are invited as guest speakers).
Students who join the project will be eligible to receive a certificate of completion which will be beneficial to their future career path, especially for those who have no work experience. That is because this project would facilitate students being able to apply soft skills in their journey.
In each workshop, the exploration-explanation-reflection concept will be used to guide students regarding the topic. Alumni who have expertise in the area may also be invited to join as guest speakers. Therefore, the students can discover and learn from those with first-hand experience and theory behind them.
Although this project is independent, the impact of this project can be elevated by the collaboration between Sara (Chanansara)'s and my projects. The following figure shows the whole concept of this project.
[[File:Concept Diagram by Bongkot Jenjarrussakul.png|thumb|Timeline of the Project]]
===Stakeholders served===
* Students: Graduate students from the School of Human Resource Development (SHRD) and students from other departments.
* School of Human Resource Development (SHRD)
===Key Milestones===
* December 2021: Project kick-off
** Get buy-in and approval from the department.
** Conduct a brainstorming workshop to understand students' needs and create some possible solutions. (Empathize to Ideate)
* March 2022: Start designing workshop
** Start developing workshops according to the results from the previous period.
** Promote and recruit students to join the programs.
* June 2022: Workshop
** Conduct workshops.
** After the workshops, assign students to create a prototype to apply skills they have learned from the workshops.
* September 2022: Supporting Students
** Observe and support students while they create their prototypes and test their ideas.
** Conduct a reflection session to allow students to reflect on what they learn and ideate possible ideas for improvement.
* December 2022: Summary
** Conduct a final reflection session.
** Celebrate the first cohort.
** Conclude the project and collect improvement points.
** Prepare the report to the FIF community.
* March 2023: New cohort kick-off
** Promote and recruit students to join the second cohort.
===An Innovation Portfolio ===
The project will offer workshops and mini projects in soft skills such as creativity, digital and data literacy, and a growth mindset that are essential for the future of work. The design thinking (DT) concepts, gamification, innovative thinking system (ITS), and the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® (LSP) will be used as tools to conduct the whole project. Firstly, design thinking will be used as the project’s backbone. The main activities of this project are designed based on the 5-step model. Secondly, gamification will be used to develop a strategy that will engage students until the end. Badge collection, certificates, and small tokens will be used throughout the project as part of the strategy. Finally, DT, ITS, and LSP (optional & situation dependent) will be used as tools in the workshops.
To encourage Learn-from-everywhere culture, I will mainly use online platforms in the project—for example, MS Teams or Zoom, LINE, Mural, etc. However, the offline workshop might also be conducted.
For the workshop, I plan to use tictoc/similar documents when designing the workshops. Worksheets, presentation slides, and other documents will also be created as needed.
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