This presentation was given by my "Open educational ideas and innovations" colleague Raimund Hudak It covers the following topics: - Cooperative Higher Education: Theory and Practice Integrated - Open education -A systems‘ challenge! - 2 cases of collaboration with students and the world of work

1. www.dhbw.de
Raimund Hudak, DHBW Germany
Open Educational Ideas and Innovations” Day
7th. September in Berlin
Plenary Session
“Open collaboration among students and educators on
research”

2. 1. Open Education (OE) –
An emerging paradigm at the
DHBW?

3. Cooperative Higher Education:
Theory and Practice Integrated
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THEORETICAL KNOWLEDGE &
PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE
• At DHBW - academic knowledge is
conveyed by more than 700 full-time
professors and 9,000 associate lecturers.
• Work placement at one of over 9,000
partner companies and social institutions
enables the students to reality-test their
careers.
• This guarantees that the students are
provided applied and up-to-date knowledge
from the chosen professional field.

4. What is Cooperative Higher Education at the DHBW?
Academic Learning + Workplace Training
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THEORETICAL KNOWLEDGE
Intensive 3-month phases of academic
learning at one of the 12 DHBW
locations and campuses
PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE
3-month work placements at one of
over 9,000 partner companies and
social institutions (‘corporate
partners’)
ACADEMIC
LEARNING
WORKPLACE
TRAINING
Integration of Theory
& Practice
in the Curriculum
+

5. PHE Institutions World of work
Employee / Student
Cooperation
Collaboration
among
Employers,
HE Institutions,
Students
Faculty Development
Business Development
Skills Skills
Skills
Self Development
Education & Training
Quality Quality
Quality
Human Resource Management
Needs Needs
Needs
Demands
Demands
Demands

6. 2. OE -
A systems‘ challenge!

7. Ownership
OER re-use is not yet a common practice in Professional Higher
Education Institutions (PHE) and the world of work (enterprises)
• Safety and copyright concerns
• Not-invented-here syndrome
• Lack of appreciation and recognition in the community
• Sharing complete resources might not be the solution for the
world of work

8. Faculty Perspective (DHBW)
Collaboration with the world of work
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 Highly qualified specialists and
executive managers from
partner companies collaborate
with PHE
 Freelance experts and
professionals from cooperating
companies are involved in
teaching and research
 Former employees willing to
pass on their longtime
experience and field-related
expertise

9. World of Work Perspective
Integration – the Role of the Enterprises
(Legal) framework for cooperation with the PHE institution:
 Working contract for study with students
 Responsibility for designing study programs with educators
 Accreditation of practice study phases
 Accreditation of applied research projects

10. Student Perspective (DHBW)
Graduates Goals
 Become a highly qualified
employee and fullfill the
employer demands from the
beginning of the carreer
 Market oriented depth of latest
knowledge and best pratices
 Ability to act successfull
across disciplins, contexts and
systems

11. Are we fit for OE at PHE institutions in Germany?
Transfer Tutor Coach
Factual Knowledge
(„know-that“)
Proceedures, Problems
(„know-how“)
Social Practice
(„knowing-in-action“)
Instruction Dialogue Interaction
Know, Remember Simulate/Train, Problemsolving Reflective Action, invent
Teaching I Teaching II Teaching III
Focus on Theory Focus on
Practice and Competence

12. 3. Collaboration with students and
the world of work

13. Sample Case 1: Collaboration among different
institutions and students – Case Study Method
 The case method describes real management issues in real
companies.
 Cases are used as a basis for class discussion and give participants
the opportunity to take on the roles of key players in actual business
situations.
 Students perform the necessary analysis - examining the causes and
considering alternative courses of actions to come to a set of
recommendations

14. Sample Case 2: Collaboration among institution,
world of work and student – Research Project
• The research agenda will give guidance to the collaborators how to
approach the research.
• Key Questions to be clarified among collaborators:
» What are the research project topics?
» What are the research questions and objectives?
» What are major resources to be used?
• The context of compiling various ideas is providing students,
educators and managers with different perspectives and content for
the research in an efficient way of collaboration.

15. Key Questions
• What kind of difficulties and barriers did we face with OER re-use, sharing
and collaboration?
• How can we facilitate better collaborations?