Sprintbase for Higher Education
Trusted by the world's top universities to take design thinking and innovation courses online.
The easy way to move your innovation course online
Education has gone virtual - and a growing number of professors are now using Sprintbase to support remote collaboration and team-based projects for courses on Innovation, Design, Entreprenuership, Marketing and much more.
The platform adapts to any curriculum, and makes it easy to launch, monitor and manage remote teams as well as assess team and indiviudal student performance.
And for those looking for a complete read-to-run project based learning experience (slides, teaching notes and all) right out of the box - we’ve got you covered.
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"Sprintbase made the transition to online delivery easy. Being able to split people into breakout groups, work in real time with students, and track who's contributing at each stage was really valuable."
Wendy Angst
Teaching Professor, Mendoza College of Business
University of Notre Dame
"I was searching ‘best software for design thinking’ and Sprintbase came up as number one. It provides methodological scaffolding to support people through a process, which is what we needed."
Dr Keenan Yoho
Professor, Crummer Graduate School of Business
Rollins College
"Sprintbase offers just what we were looking for, especially amid a pandemic...a virtual platform to help our academic colleagues learn design and launch teams that are conducting innovative research for real world impact.
Sprintbase sales and support teams have been as impressive as the platform. Their coaches have customized onboarding with our colleagues in Uganda and Malawi with grace and skill. We're delighted to be in partnership!"
Dr. John Bonnell Michigan State University
"Our design challenge was to redesign education during the Covid-19 pandemic and Sprintbase was the perfect choice for this task. We had 127 students who were engaged in the process and they came up with 24 creative solutions. Sprintbase is a great instrument to learn about human centred design."
Valentin Grecu Lecturer, Innovation Labs Ambassador Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
Transform the way you teach
More than just collaborative software, Sprintbase provides professors with a structured framework around which great remote project-based learning experiences can be delivered.
The platform comes “fully loaded” with all of the essential tools, templates and how-to guidance (all customizable) needed to help students successfully apply design thinking remotely.
Built in structure helps keep teams on track in between virtual lectures, and performance analytics and PDF output makes it easy to monitor and assess individual and team achievements.
- Design
- Human Resourse Management
- Innovation & Enterpreneurship
- International Management
- Leadership & Change Management
- MBA
- Strategic Management
- Sustainable Development
Want to discuss taking your design or innovation course online?
Let's talkVirtual Design Sprint Essentials for Higher Educators
The training, materials and support you need to get running great virtual experineces for your students -fast!
Introducing Virtual Design Sprint Essentials for Higher Education - a ready-to-run project-based learning experience that qualifying educators can be certified to lead for their students.
Designed by the same innovation experts that support leading corporate learning teams at eBay, Deloitte, NBC Universal and others, the Essentials package gives professors everything they need to guide students from conducting field research through to creating rapid prototype solutions to real challenges selected by you.
All content and materials can be tailored to any innovation and design curriculum, or delivered straight “out of the box” over a period of weeks or across an entire semester
Once certified, you’ll have everything you need to help your students achieve amazing virtual innovation outcomes, including:
- A step by step guide to the entire experience
- Detailed speakers notes
- Easy to facilitate presentation slide deck
- Simple agendas and checklists
- A wealth of downloadable tools and templates
- Coaching Field Guide for supporting teams' work outside of the classroom
- Sprintbase platform access for you and all of your students
Learn more about Virtual Design Sprint Essentials for Higher Education and how to get certified.
Let's talkWhat we’re hearing from students and professors using Sprintbase
Big wins for students
- Practical learning experiences to prepare for innovation projects in the real world
- Success stories and real work experience that employers will value
- Design thinking tools and templates to support a complete innovation journey
- Guidance, structure and support enables more learning and less time on team logistics
- Connect with students across the globe to build a strong international network
“We used Sprintbase for an innovation project that brought teams together from two countries to design solutions for an international bank. We were able to collaborate effectively while building our design thinking skills.”
Bruno Goetzmann,
Master of Innovation and Entrepreneurship,
Student; Politecnico di Milano
Big wins for professors
- A quick and easy way to move your innovation course online
- Project-based learning solution that is ready-to-run and delivers consistently high-value experiences
- Makes providing guidance outside of the classroom easier and more effective
- Instant insight into team progress as well as individual and team performance analytics
- More self-reliant teams thanks to built-in step-by-step guidance and structure
- Automatic output generation for easy assessment and review
- Access to expert virtual coaches for additional support if required
“I really like the educational aspect of Sprintbase in that there are a lot of resources provided. These are huge pluses in supporting students through the process and having documentation in the end.”
Stephanie Fernhaber,
MBA Professor; Butler University
Want to find out more about how you can use Sprintbase to deliver amazing, hands-on virtual design thinking experiences for your students?
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