The document discusses prototyping an idea to help students map their classroom learning to the real world. The idea is for students to start jobs before taking courses, and take courses related to their current work projects and goals. Feedback notes what worked well with the idea, like gaining practical and financial experience, but also identifies areas for improvement like ensuring students have sufficient foundational knowledge. It raises questions about how students would gain non-linear knowledge, what options they have if they don't like their initial job, and how they could progress to higher levels or start their own company.

1. Design Thinking: Prototype and Testing
Problem Statement: Student needs a way to map classroom and real world.
Idea: No college or job differentiation. Students start jobs before taking any
courses and take courses as per their current project or goals.
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What worked?
• Practical aspect associated
with theoretical knowledge
• Financially good for the person
and psychologically will gain
confidence
• At work place will gain
knowledge from experienced
employees
• Because of this process,
acquiring skills in a better way
and can perform better
• Exposed to different areas
because of the workplace
• Life doesn’t become a routine
What could be Improved
• Sometimes you need more
knowledge to do a simple task
from different sources?
• Uniformity in testing the
employee as a student?
• Transferable of grades? – I
need to represent the grading
and use of grades better?
• Looks like a continuous and
never ending process – do I
need to represent differently or
knowledge gaining is a
continuous process?
Questions?
• How is the student going to get
non-linear knowledge
procedure? The current
system is linear.
• If the student-employee
doesn’t like in the current job,
what next?
• If the person wants to go to
higher level, what is the
process?
• If the person wants to start
their own company?
Ideas
• Need to represent the
knowledge gained
• A person needs a basic
foundation in theory with a few
courses related to the job
she/he is aspiring for, before
joining

3. Design Thinking: Prototype and Test
Problem Statement: Student needs a way to map class
room and real world.
Idea: A social network for students, professors and
employers (alumni) to help guide students and interact
with.