Making sense of Communities of Practice at the University Level: Connecting Academia and Industries

Abstract

High-tech entrepreneurship education is the challenge of connecting practical university teaching with well-known concepts of life long learning in companies.New kinds of communities of practice emerge from these efforts.We present experiences made with a course in applied computer science, which was based on this concept.In our "Entrepreneurship and New Media" lab project teams of students worked with two start-up companies.The student teams were connected to each other and to their supervisors in academia and practice through a community system.We present a first qualitative study which evaluate the didactical concept and use of the deployed community system.Finally, we discuss the role communities of practice can play in teaching applied computer science.

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