1. Robert Stoyan Robert Stoyan: Intensive small group teaching in leadership and PM, for many students at low cost

2. Contents 1.facts about the course 2.didactical challenges and solutions 3.outlook Robert Stoyan: Intensive small group teaching in leadership and PM, for many students at low cost

3. Course course: develop leadership and project management skills regular students of bachelor and master studies all study fields didactical method: „Tutor Pyramid“

4. Course Contents leadership moderating meetings learn to know your leadership style selecting team members talking to customers handling project crises … project management (alternatively AC) effort estimates project plans management summaries risk analysis … study project apply all the above in a real project 25 hours classroom 20 hours homework 35 hours homework „All you need to know to lead a small project yourself“

5. Participation 250 participants (2007) from 2 swiss universities 160 participants (2006) from all fields of study of Zurich University 25 participants (2005) from Computer Science participation in course is voluntary

6. Teaching Methods class room lectures (on leadership): 1 tutor teaches 6 participants minimal lecturing: theory read at home + few minutes intro most of the time: role plays&group work, feedback&reflection no grading, to avoid stress homework (on project management): rework till perfect result, zero errors accepted study project: project team of 4-5 students changing PM uniform study projects, but real product live coaching + feedback on meeting protocolls, etc.  All time is used to develop skills (and not bare knowledge!)  different teaching methods

7. Participant Perception (2006) “In comparison with the other academic courses taken so far, the value of this course for me was: 6 = the highest 5 = much higher 4 = higher 3 = lower 2 = much lower 1 = the lowest

8. Preview of New Evaluations (2007) significant learning effects, measured by assessment center survey of skill usage in real life

9. Contents 1.facts about the course 2.didactical challenges and solutions - how to teach that many students? - how to educate the teachers? - how to ensure quality? - how to handle limitations? 3.outlook Robert Stoyan: Intensive small group teaching in leadership and PM, for many students at low cost

10. Tutor Pyramid... up to 430 participants up to 45 student tutors up to 7 student course leaders (experienced student tutors) 1 staff member... work for free / credit points written instructions, handouts powerpoint presentations multimedia materials e-learning applications name cards, T-shirts, …

11. Classes of 40 Students

12. Effort staff effort: course execution: ~ 1 fulltime month course development + research: ~ 3 fulltime months 3 student assistants helped me, in total 200 hours of work Summary of course execution effort: Pay 1/6 of the teaching force (course leaders, assistants, me) ~ 1 month staff effort Big effort: preparation and testing of the lectures

13. Fast-Trained-Tutors (FTT) Selection of tutors in (small) assessment center Train-the-trainer course directly before the course Skip university practice of using last year‘s participants as tutors!  Better teaching quality  Rapid growth of the course

14. Cookbook Recipes or Situative Leadership? Fast-trained-tutors (FTT) no project managers no professional teachers can execute predefined & well-trained didactical tasks  Teach only cookbook recipes?? No! (and yes…) examples: how to tackle an issue with a team member: constructivist approach: everyone creates his/her own reality „systemic questions“ – e.g. „What might your customer think about the problem?“ leadership styles do not teach them which style is the right one role play + peer feedback on student‘s leadership style role play to try out different leadership styles

15. Cookbook Recipes or Situative Leadership? Summary: We can provide full teaching value With the exception of: unforeseen questions freely chosen student projects To design a lecture for FTT: find the right domain: do, don‘t, milestones, think, questions, participant experiences to identify „a cookbook recipe“

16. Contents 1.facts about the course 2.didactical challenges and solutions 3.outlook Robert Stoyan: Intensive small group teaching in leadership and PM, for many students at low cost

17. Outlook - What Others Do CourseOpen Univ. Accen- ture Semmel- weis Medical Univ. Hungary Zurich Univ. Distance learning / classroom learning distanceclass- room class- room both Number of students per course40030070250 students per teacher (classroom)15126 Group teachers are students tooNo Yes teach PMYes NoYes teach leadershipNoYes

18. Outlook Spread the course to further swiss universities develop an e-learning and e-assessment game do „real“ PM actions at the computer measure behaviour „wikipedia principle“ - expandable by the users: game contents development = study projects of 2007 and 2008  250 students work 35 hours each students do: import course contents model their own real reactions to a leader‘s action develop game stories do part of the quality assurance

19. pair teaching