GSIF Classroom System:
- Actors and what are they gaining
- Students
- Hands on venture development
- Academic research and publication
- Mentorship from experienced faculty
- Iterative learning
- Motivated through self interest
- Faculty
- Credibility from mentorship of successful ventures
- Names on publications
- Create connections with students
- External organizations / Partners
- Opportunities for development with motivated students
- Different perspectives and approaches to most prominent issues
- Lehigh
- Credibility from venture success and impact
- Credibility from publications.
- Credibility from academic success
- Customers
- Communities receive education, services, employment opportunities and/or opportunities for community development to help to solve issues they have been struggling with.
- Students
- Trying to accomplish: impact based approach to global solutions
- The goal of every venture in GSIF is impact. Based on this premise, student approach the issues with a mindset of getting things done, rather than building of
- How are they trying to accomplish
- Real world experience
- Trial and error
- See venture/work in action
- Why they are doing it
- To give work a purpose
- Applying knowledge with the goal of making the world better
- What actors gain
- Real world understanding
- Real impact/difference made
- Professional skills
- Leadership
- Initiative
- Communication
- Presentations
- Learning to fail, make mistakes, and gain from them without the harshness of failing an exam/quiz/project
Traditional Classroom System:
- Actors and what are they gaining
- Students
- Phased learning
- Graded based motivation
- Faculty
- Assignment based teacher
- Top down teaching approach
- Partners
- Peer to peer collaboration
- Lehigh
- Credibility from research and patents/publications
- Credibility from academic success
- Customers
- Students
- Trying to accomplish: Academic success and industry/career preparation
- Academic success
- Career and industry preparation
- How are they trying to accomplish
- Practicing knowledge with homework
- Doing projects
- Taking exams and quizzes to verify knowledge
- Why they are doing it
- To succeed in either furthering academia or preparing for a career. There is the possibility of using academic knowledge and applying it in an entrepreneurial way.