Die Neue Hochschule Heft 5/2022

30 FACHBEITRÄGE DNH 5 | 2022
From COIL to COOIL – Combining on- and offline
within entrepreneurship education
Wenn der Corona-Pandemie etwas Positives abzugewinnen ist, dann sind es die neuen digitalen
Lehrformate, die wir Hochschullehrer und -lehrerinnen ausprobieren durften. Nun können wir die
vielversprechendsten Aspekte beibehalten und mit bewährten Methoden verknüpfen.
If there was anything positive with regards to the covid-19 pandemic, it is that we as
university lecturers were able to try out a series of new digital teaching experiences. Now
it is time to combine the most promising aspects of virtual teaching with onsite learning.
Von Prof. Dr. Verena Kaiser und Prof. Dr. Bettina Maisch
Foto: privat
Foto: Andreas Hoernisch
PROF. DR. VERENA KAISER
Hochschule München
Professur für Enterprise and
Innovation
Am Stadtpark 20
81243 München
verena.kaiser@hm.edu
www.hm.edu
ORCID 0000-0002-8683-8319
PROF. DR. BETTINA MAISCH
Hochschule München & Strascheg
Center for Entrepreneurship (SCE)
Professur für Entrepreneurship
Heßstraße 89
80797 München
bettina.maisch@sce.
www.sce.de
ORCID 0000-0001-9474-0226
Permalink:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7050619
It was during our second covid-19
semester when we – Prof. Verena Kaiser
from Department of Business Administration
and Prof. Bettina Maisch from
the department of Applied Sciences and
Mechatronic as well as SCE - had the
idea of opening our Entrepreneurship
course hosting students from Hochschule
München University of Applied Sciences
(HM) to a broader international
student base. Apart from the incoming
students in the Erasmus program, we
wanted to additionally invite students
from other universities who did not
have the possibility to study at HM. Our
belief was that we could turn the disadvantages
of a digital-only course into
an advantage if we created a broader
experience for our students, involving
an even more international, as well as a
broader functional experience. In other
words: we were ready for our first COIL
format- Collaborative Online International
Learning.
The original setting
We reached out to three universities
within our international network who
appreciated the idea of a COIL format:
King’s college in Kathmandu/ Nepal,
Durban University of Technology/ South
Africa, and Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny in
Warszaw/ Poland which brought in the
subject-matter expertise for our topic
“Green Tech, Agriculture, and Food”.
We conducted a weekly format
during the summer term and a block
week format during the winter term. All
sessions were held via zoom meetings.
Idea generation sessions were conducted
via Miro boards. After the first
semester, we switched from a live
lecture to flipped classroom, meaning
we recorded the theoretical input and
students watched the videos prior to
class in our so-called “SPOC” (Small
Private Online Course with access granted
only to participants, as opposed to
“MOOC” – Massive Open Online Course).
We used the time during our online
meetings for team building exercises,
Q&A, introduction of startups, and
coaching for the teams. Teams consisted
of students from all locations and
from different faculties.
What has proven well
For team coaching, we built cross-country
coaching tandems consisting of two
facilitators from different countries, who
gave feedback to one group at the same
time. Instead of “jumping” from group to
group, student teams booked coaching
slots with their tandem of choice for a
particular topic, also depending on the
specific experience of the facilitators.
Additionally, we recognized that especially
the short synchronous sessions with
Food Startup founders in the beginning
of the courses inspired the students and
gave them authentical impression what
the value of founding a company can be.