Project goals and tasks.
The following specified high-priority areas of SD educational program will be supplemented / enhanced by involving American specialists’ expertise and western teaching methodology:
- Environmental Economics and Policy,
- Corporate Social Responsibility,
- Risk Management,
- Green Technologies,
- Systems Analysis for Sustainable Development,
- Social Science Data Analysis,
- Decision Support Systems (including Artificial Intelligence),
- Material Science for Sustainable Development
As the result of the 5-year educational and strategic NTUU KPI – Fulbright Scholar Program the following aims of enhancement of the SD educational program are expected to be achieved:
- The social and institutional components of SD program will be strengthened;
- Not only statistical data, but also sociological data will be used for analysis;
- Economical and social & political components will be strengthened in the general SD course;
- Focusing more on interdisciplinary research will be achieved;
- Movement from teaching-centered to student-centered learning will be initiated and achieved;
- Time allocation adjustment for content knowledge, applied skills, and communication, entrepreneurship and leadership skills will be fulfilled;
- The skills component will obtain appropriate time allocation between hard skills (quantitative methods) and soft skills (communication, entrepreneurship, leadership, problem solving, team work);
- Building students attitude (openness and willingness for knowledge and experience sharing, individual and team responsibility) will be reached along with the shift to learning-centered model of education that includes practical case studies, concrete and contractual team projects, simulations, and guest speakers from business and government sectors;
- A competitive annual base for encouraging and awarding students’ initiated SD projects will be established;
- The right proportions among the educational elements will be secured by clearly defined educational goals of the “Basics” and “Joint MS-Candidate of Sciences” programs which will lead to delivery of the ideal graduate and implemented in each of the course syllabus of the SD program;
- The 5-year strategic NTUU “KPI”-FP plan with American scholars coming every year will focus not only on introduction of new courses and content, but also on teaching methodology. A series of certified faculty development workshops for all instructors involved in SD program (including Candidate of Sciences students – prospectus instructors) will be established and delivered regularly during they visits;
- During the visit of each of the US faculty a teaching team will be formed to:
- Adjust the course to Ukrainian contexts
- Learn firsthand from US scholar the content and teaching methods
- Develop additional UA specific teaching materials and cases
- Prepare a succession team to continue the course delivery in the future.
- New cases and attractive textbooks will be developed with accompanied teaching manual, cases, simulations, competitions (with further expanding to distance learning)