Update university curriculum to meet tomorrow's challenges

Our Client, a renown swiss university, is constantly trying to improve teaching and make sure their graduates meet the market expectations. Recently, their reflection led them to the conclusion that soft skills development is neglected in the program and absent from the diploma. To address this issue, they decided to change the curriculum by decreasing the number of ex-cathedra classes by one third to give more space to soft skills development. They quickly faced a new obstacle: what tool can be used to assess and certify student's soft skills acquisition?

Enabling student to develop and showcase all their skills from day one

The solution we advised to our Client met all needs beyond expectation including new creative streams: a centralized platform where a student can actively log all his activities and highlight his skills within an ePortfolio. The student's page can be shared at anytime with a company as support or replacement of his CV.
Teachers are also in control to assess and certify student's skills in line with their learning curriculum. The platform is fully integrated with the current learning management system, making its usage easy and flawless for everyone.

Strengthening the relation between the university and the students and alumnis

The solution will allow a better follow-up of students' academic career during their scholarship at the university and bring more transparency in the teacher-students relationship for the skills assessments. Moreover the university can easily remain in contact with its alumni by accompanying them in their first professional experiences.

Gaining visibility from companies

Companies also have access to find new talents among future graduates with a dedicated competency search engine. This a great showcase for the university to highlight the hard and soft skills learned by the students. This platform will play a prominent part in the success of the new curriculum and greatly help students find a job!

Iterative Journey

  • Understand our Client's vision and expectation by interviewing stakeholders.
  • Identify specific needs hand-to-hand with end-users
  • Formalize the functional coverage of the solution.
  • Find, assess and compare all possible solutions for a make-or-buy decision
  • Propose a roadmap with the right support to ensure a successful adoption of the platform.
Cédric
Through its strong advisory experience, OpenWeb has been able to transform a kind of preformatted customer expectation into an innovative approach allowing to find a solution fitting all existing and even future requirements. OWT will also support the integrated implementation in the customer ecosystem and the change management to boost users adoption

Cédric Debrunner

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Potential digital solution identified and explored to find the right one

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Perfect solution selected covering all expectations and even more

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Interfaceable with current digital landscape

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Cédric Debrunner
Partner,
Head of Sales
Cédric has more than 25 years of experience in the ICT industry. He has built a specific acumen in driving and growing business development organisations to address multinational and large companies. The last 14 years, he actively participated to the business model transformation of Orange Business Services from a pure telecom player to a world leader in digital B2B and B2C consulting, solutions and services provider with a broad portfolio such as global IT infrastructures, IoT, omni-channel customer engagement, digital workplace, etc. Before joining Orange, Cédric worked for the Swiss IT manufacturer and solutions provider Ascom where he managed and developed the Suisse Romande region and then joined a start-up of the group to develop the Southern Europe countries. He started his career in a banking software company. Cédric holds a Master of Science from the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) completed by a Program for Executive Development cursus at the IMD Business School of Lausanne. Innovation, challenges and customer satisfaction are guiding him.
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