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Posted by SheetPlanner
Aug 9, 2018 at 02:17 AM
Hello all,
I am trying to better understand what the specific use cases are for Project Management in higher education.
Can anyone enlighten me as to when and how faculty or students create project plans, what type of plans are they and whats their purpose?
Any guidance would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Peter
Posted by Dellu
Aug 9, 2018 at 10:14 AM
By “higher education”, do you mean at the institution level?
Or, individual members (students and teachers) of the institutions?
If you are thinking of the institutions, I think it is less likely projects will be planned and designed at the whole institution level. In my experience, projects are designed and executed at the department level.
- the higher level leadership often focus on goals: and facilitates (approves, reject, fund, control, encourage…) projects at the department level so that those goals will come to fruition.
- Projects at the departments vary as well:
most common projects are research projects. But, other types of projects like “assessment/evaluation” projects (for the promotion of staff), action projects (planning some specific action to improve the quality of education, for example); publication projects like writing guides, tutorials, lectures, manuals, textbooks….
- staff assignment and distribution
- gender equality assessment
- the efficiency of exams, lectures…
Some many types of tasks that the heads at the department (faculty) level get busy at. These all could run as projects with a lot of parties involved.
Posted by Dellu
Aug 9, 2018 at 10:29 AM
If you are thinking about the individual users, I don’t think the projects we run are any different any project that any software developer would run.
It is all personal tests and a person’s proclivities for tinkering. So many factors in here.
But, my observation is that individuals rarely use full-blown project managers like MS Project or Marvin for personal projects. Task managers and calendars are used for everything else. If the task has more data and needs more input, ms excel comes to play; not much to project managers.
I personally have tried many tools for managing my courses and plan my papers (for reading, and writing them). I dig throw these tools because, as you guess it, I have the CRIMP; and that I love timelining tools (Gantt charts). But, I don’t stick to any of them; too big to be functional for private users. I used the timelining tools in MindView and Aeon to plan my projects. I am still unsatisfied because they are not integrated with my daily tasks. There is an unfortunate huge chasm between todo managers and project managers. I blame GDT for influencing todo managers to be short-sighted (incapable of long-term planning and seeing the big picture).
Posted by Paul Korm
Aug 9, 2018 at 07:58 PM
Are you thinking of project management? Or is it course management? Different animals.
Projects are projects—in academia or government or commerce the discipline is pretty much the same, with variants in the governance and funding aspects.
But course management can vary by institution, discipline, academic level, etc. That might be a more interesting area to collect use cases on
Posted by Luhmann
Aug 10, 2018 at 03:47 AM
Not sure I understand the question, but when working on large projects with others at my institution (or across institutions) I personally like to use Trello.