Design thinking: Final summative assessment

1. Challenge: Describe your challenge, including all relevant information.

As Nelson Mandela once stated, "Instruction is the most impressive weapon which you can use to  change the world."

Challenge was to provide access to quality higher education to masses around the world. There is a  huge gap between the skill set acquired by someone in an IVY League in US vs skills acquired in a run  of the mill college in a developing world.

How do we get this access in meaningful way and get students and teachers on a platform which  value both their time was the question.

Idea was to develop a two-sided stage interfacing clients to online substance created by premium  colleges and companies. Available platforms right now has different item contributions, with a wide  exhibit of evaluating. We had to figure out how to manufacture a huge and different portfolio (for  example Expressions and Literature, Computer Science, Business) to oblige a huge crowd.

All this while, expanding admittance to training, bringing down expenses, and expanding  adaptability.

2. Selection: In your own words, briefly describe the tool you selected (e.g., what it is and why

you selected it for your challenge -- including any appropriate video lecture references).

Storytelling is a prodigious instrument that I have started using. I spend a lot of time “opening  people up” and finding ways to inspire them to improve their circumstances. When I work with  students, we share stories about their aspirations. What they want to be, where do they wish to  settle, whom do they idolise and what is stopping them from achieving it. I use their feedback  against the context of my story to ascertain their goals, and sometimes we use stories to better  understand their interests and thought processes. I use this information to develop different  strategies to try and find a way that works for them to gain more skills in the areas they find lacking  in their lives

3. Application: Describe how you applied the tool you selected to your challenge (e.g., what you

did and how the tool was applied effectively or ineffectively).

Students talked about how they wish to learn and some spoke about using certifications to get jobs.  There video lectures on platforms like Youtube, there were some training material here and there,  however, what it lacked was curated course content, validation process and certification.

The discussion zeroed in on creating an online platform where the best professors and companies  can put up their curated course establish an evaluation process and bring in lot of students. By  keeping a few parts of the stage free and offering a wide assortment of courses, the platform could  see  how to keep and keep developing its client base.

To fortify the equivalent side organization impacts, the platform could make a social network among  clients through different activities, for example, online gatherings (Q&A, plan online examination  meetings, and so on.) and peer evaluating This made a very much associated network among clients  which thus expanded commitment and permitted clients to communicate unreservedly with one  another and improve their experience.

The platform should also have cross-side organization impacts. On head of the enormous client base,  organizations with ivy league colleges pulls in more establishments to join forces with the platform.  The transition to band together with organizations likewise developed the flexibly side.

4. Insight: Describe the insight you gained from applying the tool you selected to your challenge

(e.g., how an insight affected your thinking about the challenge and about design thinking  more broadly).

The key words from all stories were aspiration, association and accreditation. Accordingly, the  platform should begin by offering free online courses through organizations with different colleges,  helping it develop its client base.

Platform should embrace a "freemium" model whereby clients were still permitted to get to course  material for nothing yet would need to pay a charge to get their tasks evaluated and to get an  authentication. This was named as "Signature Track".

Likewise identified with B2C, the organization expanded its contributions to incorporate  "Specializations". Likewise, the organization reformed admittance to degrees by dispatching single  guy and degree programs that could be earned completely on the web.

To get to new clients and more steady and predictable income streams, the organization extended  to a B2B model and dispatched "Platform for Business". Under this model, the organization banded  together with organizations to offer seminars on its foundation or potentially to furnish them with  an online stage to prepare their workers.

The organization keeps on enhancing on its contributions and to extend its associations to continue  developing its income. For instance, it is banding together with governments over the world (for  example Singapore, Egypt) to help them in upskilling and reskilling their residents.

5. Approach: Describe what you might do differently next time -- applying the same tool you

selected or a different one -- and the reason(s) why.

There is a lot to be achieved in this area. A lot of players are rushing in. Getting in quickly and  building the base is of high importance.

We could utilize the intensity of information by having AI to improve the stage. Indeed, the  organization will have abundance of information available to its, for example, click rates, time it took  to finish an activity, when do students drop-off, information from gathering questions, and so forth.

A case of an utilization case that the organization has actualized is centered around expanding client  commitment through customized focused on emails. Another utilization case zeroed in on refreshing  tasks dependent on the recorded presentation of students. A third model spun around suggesting  the "following best course" in view of past course selections.

The organization is resolved to keep bridling the intensity of information to help it across different  use cases from expanding maintenance to creating content. Properly utilizing information can  enable the organization to improve different touchpoints over the student venture.

In synopsis, Platform can change the learning experience through its online stage. It reformed  instruction for people hoping to improve their insight or develop specific ranges of abilities. It  changed instruction for organizations and governments looking to upskill as well as reskill their  representatives and constituents, individually. What's more, it began upsetting admittance to  degrees by offering a completely online unhitched male's and ace's projects.

However, note that the online training market is involved different players and it will most likely not  be a champ bring home all the glory market. Despite the fact that online training stages do have  solid organization impacts and the gracefully side scale drives up an obstruction to section, there is  as yet a high multi-homing viewpoint given that it's modest to switch back and forth between stages  (for example clients pay per course) and given that players can separate their contributions.

