Research Stride
Mission statement
50 million of the most elaborately trained talents annually work on a project that often falls short of its rich potential: the academic thesis. The result is that students look back on their first scientific project experience with little enthusiasm. Consequently, students lose a large part of their belief in the applicability of scientific methods at the end of their studies.
How can this system be improved as a learning and support experience and as a generator of a lasting positive effect? Not only with “The Student’s Research Companion” but also with its digital sibling project, “Research Stride”, we try to capture and contribute to solving this problem. Research Stride is currently in its conceptual and prototyping phase.
We are working with committed students, researchers, and universities to develop a didactically meaningful, digital mentoring and management system for theses with the aim to leverage the potential that rests within the academic thesis project.
For
50 million of the most elaborately trained talents annually work on a project that often falls short of its rich potential: the academic thesis. The result is that students look back on their first scientific project experience with little enthusiasm. Consequently, students lose a large part of their belief in the applicability of scientific methods at the end of their studies.
How can this system be improved as a learning and support experience and as a generator of a lasting positive effect? Not only with “The Student’s Research Companion” but also with its digital sibling project, “Research Stride”, we try to capture and contribute to solving this problem. Research Stride is currently in its conceptual and prototyping phase.
We are working with committed students, researchers, and universities to develop a didactically meaningful, digital mentoring and management system for theses with the aim to leverage the potential that rests within the academic thesis project.
Mission statement
50 million of the most elaborately trained talents annually work on a project that often falls short of its rich potential: the academic thesis. The result is that students look back on their first scientific project experience with little enthusiasm. Consequently, students lose a large part of their belief in the applicability of scientific methods at the end of their studies.
How can this system be improved as a learning and support experience and as a generator of a lasting positive effect? Not only with “The Student’s Research Companion” but also with its digital sibling project, “Research Stride”, we try to capture and contribute to solving this problem. Research Stride is currently in its conceptual and prototyping phase.
We are working with committed students, researchers, and universities to develop a didactically meaningful, digital mentoring and management system for theses with the aim to leverage the potential that rests within the academic thesis project.
Design principles
Result
From a technical standpoint, we are working on a digital platform for mentoring and managing student research projects.
Considering the effect of the platform, we aim to reshape the research and mentoring experience of our stakeholders positively.
Guidelines
We prioritize the learning experience of students. This is our leading concern. Our secondary priority is the mentoring experience and support to strengthen the students’ learning experience.
We aim to scale student research mentoring. While it will never be as efficient as a lecture, suitably supported processes can easily multiply one mentor’s supervision capabilities.
We build a system that enables universities to steer and activate the powerful system of hundreds of students making their scientific contribution. A largely untapped resource, today.
Mission statement
50 million of the most elaborately trained talents annually work on a project that often falls short of its rich potential: the academic thesis. The result is that students look back on their first scientific project experience with little enthusiasm. Consequently, students lose a large part of their belief in the applicability of scientific methods at the end of their studies.
How can this system be improved as a learning and support experience and as a generator of a lasting positive effect? Not only with “The Student’s Research Companion” but also with its digital sibling project, “Research Stride”, we try to capture and contribute to solving this problem. Research Stride is currently in its conceptual and prototyping phase.
We are working with committed students, researchers, and universities to develop a didactically meaningful, digital mentoring and management system for theses with the aim to leverage the potential that rests within the academic thesis project.
We foster “from insight to impact” by enabling the local community around universities to propose and observe research projects and attract talent to stay, work, and invest locally.
Exemplary journey of a student using Research Stride
Eva finds her topic on the topic market and she applies within the app.
Within the app, the feature “Research Flow” greets her and provides her with initial guidance.
Also in the app, the feature “Instruct Once” provides her with an initial video message by her supervisor.
She starts working, but veers off target.
She realizes that she needs a mentoring session with her supervisor and sets one up in the “Front Desk” feature.
Eva meets with her supervisor and finds her path back on track to submitting.
Both her supervisor and Eva decide together that now, the project is so well aligned, that it’s time to publish her project to the “Thesis Observatory”, a feature that allows the university to share information on suitable thesis projects.
Eva uses the “E-Mentoring” features in the app for some final questions.
She makes one final appointment with her supervisor to discuss her findings before submitting.
Finally, she submits her thesis through Research Stride.
Eva required two interactions with her supervisor where, before, almost each of these ten steps would have kept her supervisor busy and herself waiting for the supervisor’s response. Delays were taken out of the process just like inefficiencies through repetitions and superfluous interactions. All that saves time in uncritical projects for those cases that truly need immediate attention – just like Eva did when she was at risk of going off course.
Invitation
If you are interested in this project and want to learn more, please do not hesitate to get in touch with Benjamin through the form at the bottom of this page. We’d be delighted to find was to collaborate in the development of this project. It is a tool that would greatly help unlock the potential in the academic community. If you agree, drop us a line.