Digital product development

A full-semester elective accepting students from interdisciplinary programmes to design, develop and deliver a digital product.

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 EK.

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.

Overview of the semester

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

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

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

4. Agile development

Mandatory assignments

There are 4 mandatory assignments during the semester. The date of the hand-in will be visible on EK´s learning management system, Itslearning, and the hand-in will take place in the EK exam system WiseFlow.

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.

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.

Study culture & requirements for students at EK

To assure a successful exchange experience at EK, it is essential that incoming exchange students understand and are prepared to comply with the study culture at EK:

Attendance

Independent study skills

In addition to attending lectures, it is very important that students work independently and with their groups on a daily basis throughout the semester.

This means that even if the fixed schedule of lectures appear light, students at EK are expected to dedicate around 40 hours per week of studying and working with their groups in order to be equipped for the exams.

Punctuality

At EK, and in Denmark in general, you are always expected to be on time for classes, advising sessions, meetings with your group, work, and social appointments.

We know punctuality varies a lot from one culture to another, and that is why we would like to emphasize the importance of this in Danish culture to our visiting exchange students as it can otherwise become a source of frustration in various social and study settings.

Teaching Methods

Admission Requirements

English proficiency requirements

At EK, students must prepare for each class by reading relevant literature, discussing it with their group or with the lecturers and writing projects already from the first weeks of the semester. This means you must be used to speaking, reading and writing English at a high level.

The minimum level of English accepted at EK is B2 on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages corresponding to TOEFL 550 or IELTS 6.0.

EK reserves the right to reject students whose English level is below this level.

Entry Requirements

The Global Business exchange semester is part of the third semester of the AP Degree in Marketing Management. To join the programme, you must have successfully completed at least 60 ECTS credits at your home institution before the semester begins. This ensures that you have the necessary academic foundation to benefit fully from the experience.

Questions?

Want to learn more about the programme? Please contact Ida:

Ida Winberg Hemmingsen
E: idwh@ek.dk

Digital Product Development

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