Curriculum and Skills Journey OverviewJoint Master’s Program Data Science & Entrepreneurship

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The Vision of the JMDS&E

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“To teach the complexities of data

entrepreneurship, our program

combines evidence-based

learning with

experience-based learning. Therefore, [we] develop practical

(Big data) applications and

prototypes, we will host an

elaborate mentoring program, and

give students the real-life

experience of starting

their own data venture.”

Rare & Valuable

Capabilities

Constant

experimentation &

learning

Lean Start-upCombine Actions &

Insights

Data Entre-

preneurship is a

team sport

Building a Data

Living Lab

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Alongside the intended learning outcomes, a skills journey and

individual coaching program prepares for students’ future

entrepreneurship.

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1. Curriculum 2. Skills Journey 3. Coaching & Mentoring

Competencies (in accordance with Dublin

descriptors mentioned in the NVAO-

accreditation add-on d.d. April 2017)

following JADS’s ambition to be the most

innovative and entrepreneurial Data

Science study in the Netherlands and the

EU at large.

A personal skills journey contains

additional workshops / training supported

by assessments to develop the personal

skills of the students, consisting of

curricular and extracurricular skills.

A triangle of students, coaches (personal

level) and mentors (business level) to

ensure personal level learning objectives

of the student.

A challenging, consistent and balanced menu of

entrepreneurial competencies

Overall Approach of the JMDS&E

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Curriculum JMDS&E

Data Mining Deep Learning

Business Analytics

Process Mining

Data & Law (IP & Privacy) Cognition & Creativity Ethics & Entrepreneurship

Data Architecture & Integration Innovation Services Data Vizualization

Strategy & Business Models Entrepreneurial Marketing Data Entrepreneurship*

Entrepreneurial Finance Corporate Entrepreneurship*

Super Crunchers

DEiA 1.1 DEiA 1.2 D EiA 2.1 Master Thesis (2.2)

Data Engineering

Data Mining

Data Decision Making

Data Entrepreneurship

Data in Society

Electives

Choose 1 out of 2*

Skills Journey

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Skill Journeys JMDS&E

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Based on the assessment the students have to follow a mandatory, personalized program to

overcome deficiencies in personal & learning skills and entrepreneurial skills.

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Synopsys Skills Journey

• Personal branding

• Cross Cultural Awareness

• Language skills

• Emotional agility (e.g. coping

with failure and stress)

• Dealing with information

overload

• On demand skills training

• Direct referral to a

specialist (e.g. psychologist)

• Interviewing (SBM)

• Presenting (SBM)

• Consulting & Advising (D&L)

Extra Curricular

• Storytelling (Data Visualization)

• Debating (Ethics &

Entrepreneurship)

• Assessment of individual and

team competences

• Drawing up an Individual

Development Plan (IDP)

III. Coaching

• Follow up IDP

• Personal coaching if needed

• Follow up IDP

• Personal coaching if needed

• Creative thinking

(Creativity & Cognition)

• Negotiating

(Entrepreneurial Finance)

• Selling/Marketing

(Entrepreneurial Marketing)

III. Mentoring

• Personal coaching if needed

• Assessment of individual and

team competences

Experienced entrepreneur, acting as a critical friend

• Follow up IDP

• Personal coaching if needed

CurricularSemester 1.1 Semester 1.2 Semester 2.1 Semester 2.2

Generic Skills Entrepreneurial Skills Advanced Skills

Data Science in Action I Data Science in Action II Data Science in Action III

On Demand

II. Skills Journey

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The Basic/Advanced Personal and Entrepreneurial Skills

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Overview of skills in the program

Semester 1.1 – Basic Skills

• Interviewing (SBM)

• Presenting (SBM)

• Consulting & Advising (D&L)

• Interviewing, presenting, consulting & advising

(DEIA I)

Semester 1.2 – Entrepreneurial Skills

• Design - & Creative thinking (C&C)

• Negotiation (Entrepreneurial Finance)

• Selling/Marketing (Entrepreneurial Marketing)

• Design- & Creative Thinking, Negotiation, Selling

/ Marketing (DEIA II)

Semester 2.1 – Advanced Skills

• Storytelling (Data Visualization)

• Debating (Ethics & Entrepreneurship)

• Storytelling & Debating (DEIA III)

• Skills are interlaced with the courses into the

curriculum.

• Students will get assessed on these skills, preferably

integrated in the assessment of the course.

• Assessment will influence the final grade of the course.

• Feedback on skills performance will be documented.

• Different courses accentuate different soft skills, in this

way a variety of skills will be taught.

• The trained skills of a certain semester come together in

the Data Entrepreneurship in Action courses of that

same semester.

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Coaches personally guide students during their Journey

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Individual Coaching

• Assessment of individual and team

competences (baseline)

• drawing up an Individual

Development Plan (IDP)

• Follow up IDP

• Personal coaching if needed

• Assessment of individual and team

competences

• Assessment of individual and team

competences (endline)

On Demand Skills Training

• JADS’s MDS&E is a program that equals the intensity of being in a real start-up.

Coaching students in this high-pressure environment is necessary and truly

beneficial to their progress and learning.

• Every student has a coach that knows about and is available in all stages of their

studies.

• Potentially, students keep an online log / reporting tool to keep track on their

skillset, so the coach can get a quick overview of their performance.

• Students and coach sign a document in which they explicitly state their ambition to

work on the student’s development.

• Students are responsible for their own learning trajectories, but coaches can

incentivize and direct them in target-setting and (self-) evaluation.

• Coaches follow a recurring meeting schedule but are available when needed.

• After a discussion with a coach, additional on demand skill training is available

through the on-demand skills offering (see previous chapter).

• After a year, a mentor is available to the student to help them with more content-

specific question; in a meeting coach, mentor and student agree on the

development path in the last year.

• The mentor is the key to their to-be-grown network, he or she is an experienced

entrepreneur and will act as a critical friend.

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Extracurricular skills

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• Students can apply through their coach for additional skills

workshops / trainings that fit their individual proposition and

learning needs and interests.

• Based on the students’ demand, the skills coordinator will select

one skill per semester that will be offered to the group

• If needed and after discussion with their coach, a student can

apply for additional coaching at all TU/e and TiU’s facilities – the

coach holds a list of optional skills.

• Personal branding

• Cross Cultural Awareness

• Language skills

• Emotional agility (e.g. coping with

failure and stress)

• Dealing with information overload

• On demand skills training

• Direct referral to a specialist (e.g.

psychologist)

Extracurricular skills

On Demand