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Challenges....and
the meaning of Success
Challenges
Meaning of Success
Challenges
- Biggest
Challenge: The biggest challenge was to test out her vision
of PBL nine years ago. "It was a successful experiment." Renate
Smiled.
- Challenges
on locating equipment, space, people, time, responsibility, training:
"These are the challenges that any faculty that is planning to
develop PBL will face. The more you understand its challenges, the better
you'll prepare with contingency plan. Institution supports is the most
critical, without institutional backing and support, it is almost like
running against the wall."
- Challenges
on collocatedness: "I've learnt a lot by developing and
establishing the program over the years, I've developed a number of
strategies to work with different partners worldwide. Be able to establish
collaboration networks on a case by case basis. Every university has
its own validation and organizational structure and culture. Each university
has its national contextual constraints and opportunities. So there
is no "one-fix-all" model. Key is to identify the champion
of different person in respective university who really wants to establish
that partnership and then work with him or her towards that goal."
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Meaning of Success
Success means...
- the number
of students and teams at AEC global teamwork program have been constantly
growing in the last 9 years.
- the program
has been institutionalized and it has been part of the regular curriculum
and also it has established a new master plan in the department.
- The research,
development, testing and deployment of new technologies.
- new research
assistance that worked on interesting and relevant questions.
- AEC students
who have gone through the experience of global teamwork are extremely
hot in the market and become the change agents who bring technology
into their companies.
- we start
to see our industrial sponsors and mentors that work with us start to
pilot, emulate the information technology infrastructure in their company
and their business.
- seeing
our students' extraordinary results at the end of each year during the
final projects presentation. That they had overcome the hard work, challenges
and frustrated situations, realized and appreciated the extraordinary
journey they've gone through.
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