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Project Management Issues
Project Management Issues
Jacques Raynauld
Director, Undergraduate Program
École des Hautes Études Commerciales
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How to Survive a ThinkPadUniversity Project
How to Survive a ThinkPadUniversity Project
Jacques Raynauld
Full Professor of Economics
École des Hautes Études Commerciales
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HEC is a large business school part of the University of Montréal campus
10 000 students enrolled in night courses, bachelor, MBA, M.Sc., DESS and Ph.D.
New building in 1996 ...
... with some wired classrooms
All faculty have laptops since 1996
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Virtuose program started at the MBA in 1997
BBA in 1998
3-year program
Phased-in approach
800 students who took the 9 core courses in the first year
12 sections of 65+ students
Students buy from the student run Coop
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Team diversity - circular
model
Undergraduate
director
Finance
FacultyPublicrelations
Buildingdepartment
Chief Informa.Officer
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RegistrarOffice
ITdepartment
StudentOffice
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First class network
Student perspective or visualization - agenda portal Managed approach - delivery of the laptop
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Soft push for the faculty
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The laptop as a daily communication and working tool ...
... with classroom use in some chosen courses
objectives are clarified along the way
very useful for assessment
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Go decision! Go decision!
Monitoring the use of technology by faculty
Student access to labs
Heterogeneous computing skills and equipment
Worrisome decision ...
... even with Jean-Marie Toulouse full support
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Team of students assisting in all aspects of the project Faculty coaching and assistance Development of new tools Delivery of the computer Help Desk, etc.
Led by a HEC M.Sc. student ...
... outside our IT department
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Deliberate emphasis on providing up-to-date information
3 booklets were sent to students prospective students accepted students incoming students
In an Appendix, we wrote : “when your professor will say open your laptop ...”
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Very high expectations related to classroom use
Some students criticized the program on this issue Desktop vs laptop
Support of best teaching practices by faculty ...
... laptop is another element of the toolbox
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Regular meetings with student representatives
Printing issue
Replication and the network metaphor
Spirit cycle
ICQ
The marker paradigm and Acrobat Reader
Finding the right balance
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School project (student, faculty, staff)
All sort of details
Expectations, expectations, expectations ...
... settle down at the end Questions?
Valley City State University Survey conducted by Professor Kathryn Holleque in 1997. HEC 1999
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