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Steps To A Sustainable Future

Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at the University College in Dublin, Julia Backmann, recently integrated Telanto industry challenges into her Global Leadership course. Her course of 30-40 students focuses on leadership topics, organizational behavior, teamwork, and relationship management. 

Our Community & Content Manager, Logan Palmer, recently chatted with Backmann about her experience with Telanto to engage learning challenges for her students. Backmann generously shared her insights with us to help professors gain a better sense of what Telanto is about, how it works, and why this type of global learning challenge is becoming increasingly important for learning and innovation. 

To start, here’s one juicy takeaway––she notes how easy Telanto’s structure is, especially for professors. 

Five tips to help students build employability and 21st-century skill set.

At TELANTO we believe in the power of student collaborations. For most of the day we engage our corporate clients with students in collaborative activities, in which challenge sponsors look for solution proposals that solve their day-to-day real-world challenges. Although this is a fascinating area to be in quite a few times we have witnessed student groups wait for answers rather than collaborate and look for solutions. 

Promoting real-world company challenges for student collaboration is a fascinating area to be involved in but it doesn’t just happen on its own. Since we want real student collaboration, we need to intentionally design it as part of the learning activity of the course in which students are enrolled. Let me share with you a couple of strategies that should help to encourage effective collaboration amongst students and corporate sponsors.

TELANTO is an experiential learning platform being used in university classrooms across the world to enagage students with corporate challenges from the real world. Not sure what experiential learning is? Listen to this episode to learn more!

The Hack on Innovation: Do Hackathons Drive Talent And Transformation?

Hackathons are a great way to amp up creative energy, especially those that provoke challenge-based innovation. We’ve participated in a ton of them, and each time we’ve come away charged up with some new insight, a unique perspective, a shift in convention, and a caffeine hangover. But there’s always the question, do hackathons really pay off in the long run?