Course Settings

Designing Courses for Impact

Ewance provides a comprehensive suite of configurations tailored for course creation, enabling educators to align their academic offerings with both educational goals and industry needs. This section will elaborate on the distinctive settings that set courses apart from challenges, including academic and operational frameworks, collaboration dynamics, timeline and geographic scope, and evaluation and student profile parameters. By mastering these settings, educators can design courses that not only meet academic rigor but also foster impactful collaborations with industry partners, ensuring that students engage with real-world challenges under optimal learning conditions. Through careful configuration of these settings, courses are crafted to enhance student competencies, cater to diverse learning environments, and deliver meaningful outcomes to challenge sponsors.

Key Categories of Course Settings

Course Identity and Overview

• Image, Course Name, Executive Summary, and Description: These settings establish the fundamental identity of your course, offering a snapshot to potential project partners. The name and image draw initial attention, while the executive summary and description provide a deeper look into the course’s motivation, objectives, and the type of industry challenges sought.

Academic and Operational Framework

• Objectives, Methods, Solution Output Language, Expected Outcome: This category focuses on the pedagogical foundation of the course, detailing the learning objectives, teaching methodologies, languages for solution presentation, and the expected outcomes for challenge sponsors. These elements are critical for aligning the course content with both academic goals and industry expectations.

Course Information Details

• Field of Studies, Faculty Name, Program Name, Degree, Degree Description, No of Challenges, Team Size, No of Students: These fields provide specific details about the academic setting of the course, including the program's focus, faculty involved, and logistical aspects such as the number of challenges, teams, and students. This information helps to contextualize the course within the broader educational offering.

Collaboration Dynamics

• Digital Mentor, Multidisciplinary, Multi-campus, Student Bidding: These settings define the collaborative and interactive components of the course, outlining how students will work together and under what supervision. Options like multidisciplinary groups and multi-campus collaboration expand the course's reach and diversity, enhancing the learning experience.

Timeline and Geographic Scope

• Challenge Submission Deadline, Course Start/End, Solving the Challenges Start/End, Geography: Setting clear timelines for the course and challenge-solving phases, along with specifying geographic preferences for industry collaboration, ensures that all participants are synchronized and that collaborations are feasible.

Evaluation and Student Profile

• Categories, Competencies & Skills, Age Range, Work Experience, % of International Students, Student Countries: These settings allow for a detailed description of the student profile, expected competencies, and skills development, which inform potential industry partners about the student body they will be engaging with and how their contributions will be evaluated.

By thoughtfully configuring these course settings, educators can effectively communicate the structure, objectives, and unique features of their courses, facilitating successful engagements with industry partners and ensuring that the educational experiences are both relevant and impactful. This structured approach to course settings highlights the course's academic integrity while promoting its applicability to real-world challenges.