A full-semester elective accepting students from interdisciplinary programmes to design, develop and deliver a digital product.
Freja, full time student at Digital Concept Development
Digital product development
The world is changing rapidly.
We want you to learn how to use technology to create innovative sustainable digital products in collaborative teams for real clients.
For today. For the future.
Develop your mind & skillset
Technology
The world is changing. Technology is becoming more and more important.
Business
Business needs innovative and creative drive who contribute to interdisciplinary solutions to the challenges of the future.
Sustainability
Our world is in the middle of a transformation towards a sustainable and regenerative future.
What will happen?
Team work
In a mixed team with students with different educational backgrounds from international universities including danish students from KEA.
Take charge as a team
You will create a plan, agreements, appointments and plan where and how you will work together in a self managed team.
Work on a real problem
You will be creating a solution to a real problem, where you will be collaborating with both users and a client from the business industry.
Feedback & coaching
You will get feedback and coaching from your lecturers and your client in order to optimize your product and learning.
Who are the lecturers?
Ida Winberg Hemmingsen
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Overview of the semester
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1. Design Sprint
The sprint is a five-day process for answering critical business questions through design, prototyping, and testing ideas with customers.
Your team will get started on prototyping a digital product for an external client.
You will be training for very (extremely) short loops of learning with weekly feedback from the client.
You will finalize your digital product and present the final solution in the end.
Duration: 4 weeks
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2. Deep Dive
It' s time for you to dive deep and create your individual learning goals and develop the skills you need.
You will create your own learning path and be inspired by workshops of the week to dive deep to develop your skills.
You will get inspiration to challenge yourself and learn mehods to focus and concentrate in order to learn new skills.
Duration: 1 week
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3. Startup Way
Taking off-set in the lean startup approach.
During this theme you will be launching a new enterprise— whether it’s a tech start-up, a small business, or an initiative within a large corporation this is what you are going to do with your team.
You might also want to continue to work on your client from the first module.
The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.
Duration: 5 weeks
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4. Agile development
Learn how to kickstart, execute, and deliver your agile projects.
You will be learning combining cutting-edge tools with classic agile practices.
You will learn everything you need to deliver something of value every week and develop products in iterations.
Duration: 4 weeks
Mandatory assignments
There are 4 mandatory assignments during the semester. The date of the hand-in will be visible on KEA's learning management system, Itslearning, and the hand-in will take place in the KEA exam system WiseFlow.
| Title | Individual/Team | Feedback |
|---|---|---|
| Design Sprint | Team | Wiseflow: Approved/Not approved |
| Deep Dive | Individual | Wiseflow: Approved/Not approved |
| The Startup Way | Team | Wiseflow: Approved/Not approved |
| Agile Development | Team | Wiseflow: Approved/Not approved |
Exam
The exam will be an individual oral exam based on your portfolio, work-log and an individual synopsis. The structure of the oral exam is: 5 min presentation + 20 min. exam + 5 min. grading/votation.
| Title | Individual/Team | Feedback |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolie, worklog + synopsis | Individual | Wiseflow: Oral exam |
What will you learn?
You will be learning from the field of expertise in the industry in an educational context.
You will learn to:
- Collaborate in an interdisciplinary team
- Research practical issues using a methodical approach
- Design and deliver digital products
- Explore and learn different methods and tools to create digital products
Learning methods & learning materials
The teaching methods and work processes of this theme are based on a combination between workshops, team work, instruction/hands on, online tutorials and collaborative and blended learning methods. Project and teamwork are important part of the theme including feedback and coaching in order to optimize and upgrade your competences.
During the theme you will be working on a relevant digital challenge from the industry, and you will get feedback from the client to ensure that the learning process of developing competences and skills that are highly demanded in the workplace is fulfilled.
The learning material will mainly be literature in the form of online resources and video tutorials such as LinkedIn Learning and tutorials made by the teachers. There will be litterature related to all modules.
More information
Want to learn more about the programme? Please contact Ida:
Ida Winberg Hemmingsen
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