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= '''Fall 2018 Priorities'''<br/> =
<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">The University of Twente has a highly developed innovation & entrepreneurship ecosystem that offers the students a variety of facilities. Students have an unlimited amount of opportunities to act innovative and entrepreneurial next to their study. However, we discovered during our training that the innovative and entrepreneurial aspect is not completely integrated within the structure of the studies itself. Students have to stick to a fixed time and course schedule and therefore have rarely a chance to select a course themselves that is aimed at their personal interests. Therefore, we aim at making the study structure more flexible for students to offer them more opportunities within their curricular.</span>
<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Our main goals are:</span>
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<li><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Provide the students more flexibility within their curricular to get in contact with or to deepen their knowledge about different fields of expertise</span></li><li><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Increase the amount of courses available for UT students at the UT as well as at partner universities</span></li><li><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Making it possible for all students to learn more about innovation and entrepreneurship within their study</span></li>
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<br/><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">To achieve these goals, we would like to propose the following 3 solutions:</span>
<span style="font-size:larger"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 700; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap">Voting on content within the study:</span></span>
<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Within the study itself the content taught is mainly fixed due to our education model TEM. With the solution “voting on content” we would like to give students the chance to have a voice in what will be taught in order to adapt their study to personal preferences. The solution proposes that there will be fixed courses that cannot be changed, as well as different focuses of the courses that can be voted on. For example if students are studying the course finance, they could vote for the focus of the course ‘finances of innovative companies’ or ‘technologies supporting financial processes’. That means there won’t be an extra course created, the content will be implemented in already existing courses.</span>
<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">When courses collide or for any other reason you aren’t able to follow the course, online based learning would be a great solution. With lectures, exercises and extra material online, the student is given the option to follow a specific course whenever the time is right. It makes it possible for students to follow courses of other faculties where they don’t take each others timetable into account.</span>
<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">Interdisciplinary collaboration between universities and faculties on TEM projects:</span>
<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">TEM education model includes a project for each module at University of Twente. With the project students form a team and do the project throughout the module. However, with the exception of few cases, the project groups are always within the same cohort of the study. Our university want to promote collaboration of different disciplines, yet something as essential as TEM projects are excluded from that ideal in most cases.</span>
<span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre; white-space:pre-wrap">What if the 3 institutions (Saxion University of Applied Sciences, University of Twente, and Aki ArtEZ Art Academy) within the city of Enschede agreed on a collaboration? It would give students flexibility on their focus, going more on technical, or art direction. All three institutions are already contributing to Gogbot festival (without joint effort). A collaboration of this case can be a benchmark on to see if these institutions can work together.</span> [[File:Flexibility in the Study Program.jpeg]]
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