Project Based Learning Engagements
Bridge the gap between classroom and career by organizing high-impact project-based experiences including real challenges from real organizations with real industry mentors
Industry-Integrated Project Based Learning
Industry-integrated project-based learning activities connect students with organizations that are currently trying to solve a real challenge. During their collaboration, students are able to work with industry leaders and receive actual feedback as they work through analyzing the challenge and providing suggestions.
Project-based learning experiences are essential for student success post-graduation. These experiences offer students the opportunity to engage in real-world scenarios and work on real-world projects, which provides them with practical hands-on experience in their field of study. These types of projects also offer students the opportunity to network within specific industries, gain résumé-worthy experience, and potentially gain future employment.
Considering the variety of ways academic organizations look to design industry-integrated project-based learning programs, CapSource has designed a fully-customizable technology solution that helps to optimize the project design process, the collaboration between users, and the mechanisms to track and evaluate outcomes using three core formats: one project one team, one project many teams, many projects many teams.
Project-Based Formats
CapSource users leverage our project-based learning module to customize, build, manage, and scale all sorts of organized, high-impact experiential learning programs...
| Internship: | Projects designed by organizations to help recruit, develop, and evaluate young talent |
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| Micro-Internship: | Shorter term internship designed to help recruit, develop, and evaluate talent quickly |
| Apprenticeship: | Longer term project designed to provide talent with deep exposure to a field and mentor |
| Capstone: | Student consulting project designed to help connect academic curriculum to real-world challenges |
| Live Case: | Class project framed as a live case study for one or more student teams to work on |
| Clinic: | Practical, hands-on practice for talent as they look for ways to serve organizations and/or individuals |
| Co-Op: | Academic project designed to develop and expose talent through immersive work-like experience |
| Research Project or Field Study: | Research project designed to create new concepts |
| Volunteer Service Learning: | Activate and organize talent by helping them meaningful engage and serve non-profit or public sector organizations |
| Case Competition: | Organize a challenge designed for student teams to compete to come up with the best insights |
| Work Study: | Co-curricular on-campus work responsibilities provided by department or function |
Configure your environment to optimize...
Single Project, Single Team/Participant
This engagement format allows educators and industry collaborators to customize and manage all aspects of the project and timeline for the most personalized experience.
Single Project, Multi-Team
This engagement format is designed for educators to optimize the environment where every team of students is working on the same project for the same organization.
Multi-Project, Multi-Team
This engagement format is designed to help educators as they look to optimize cohort-based experiences that involve many industry partners, many industry mentors, many projects, and many teams of students.
CapSource's Technology Gives you Access to...
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Managing Unlimited Partners:
Connect and manage one or multiple Industry partners
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Managing Unlimited Projects:
Design one or many projects with one or many industry partners
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Enrolling Students:
Manage as few or as many students and projects as you’d like
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Any Duration:
Design projects for a few days, a few weeks, or 1-2 semesters
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Any Rigor:
Projects can be for introductory, intermediate, or advanced-level learning
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Any Modality:
Our technology is fully adaptable to on-site or virtual collaborations
How Project Based Experiences Can Benefit Your Students
EXPERIENCE
Work on REAL issues that companies are facing in today’s marketplace. These experiences give students a glimpse into what business is like outside the classroom and can provide them with Resume-Worthy experiences.
SKILL DEVELOPMENT
Students who participate in a LiveCase experience will develop skills crucial for early career success. While solving real industry challenges for industry leaders they receive feedback from members of their team as well as industry mentors. Students can then self-reflect on the experience and identify areas of strength as well as areas that need improvement.
NETWORKING
Give your students an oppoturnity to work with top industry executives as they work on a case for their company. In the LiveCase experience students are given the opportunity to meet with the industry partner executives and ask questions both about the project as well as personal.
Maximize the impact of your project-based learning using these key features...
Design the format that will best fits your needs
With three unique and fully customizable industry-integrated project-based learning formats, there is no program that you can’t optimize using our technology. Regardless of the engagement format you choose, you’ll have all your projects, resources, industry partners, industry mentors, academic collaborators, students, deliverables, and evaluation data in one place.
More Efficiently Recruit Industry Partners
During the program-building process, you have the option to create a Request for Proposal (RFP). A RFP outlines the teaching goals, collaboration requirements, and timeline to ensure industry partners clearly understand the objective of the collaboration. Easily share your RFP with your alumni and employer network or leverage our matchmaking service, which guarantees the leads you need to organize suitable projects for your students.
Streamline Industry Partners' Onboarding Process
Choose from templates that you feel best fit your specific needs. The template selected will be seen by organizations first to allow them to build a project proposal that best suits your individual needs.
Manage Student and Industry Rosters
Easily onboard students and as many industry mentors as needed for any project. You can choose to have students sign up or you can load in a student roster directly on the platform.
Finalize Project Details and Assign Students to Teams and Projects
Utilize CapSource’s Project Builder to finalize your project. Here you can upload any supporting materials needed for the project. Once completed you can easily create your student teams adding students to custom teams as well as industry mentors if needed.
Track Deliverables, Industry Feedback, and Evaluation Data
Track student progress through the CONNECT platform to ensure all students are on track for project completion. As students progress through the project, they will be prompted to complete surveys which will allow you to gauge how they are performing and identify areas that need improvement.
You will also receive any and all feedback from industry partners as well as post-project evaluation data. This post-project evaluation data will allow you to see how students felt they worked as a team as well as what they liked about the project and what they felt needed improvement.
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“I’d love to have my students work on Live Projects in both my Operations Management and Information Systems classes in Spring. Now I can’t even imagine ever going back to teaching a class without including a live case project. I really appreciate all that your team and Toby are doing.
It’s really making such a difference to the learning opportunities we can provide our students.”
“I’d love to have my students work on Live Projects in both my Operations Management and Information Systems classes in Spring. Now I can’t even imagine ever going back to teaching a class without including a live case project. I really appreciate all that your team and Toby are doing.
It’s really making such a difference to the learning opportunities we can provide our students.”
CapSource has provided me with some really wonderful companies to work with. Their software and added services make designing and managing project-based collaborations easyI The students come up with such clever ideas working in teams on real-world cases and projects. I highly recommend adopting this for an upcoming course!
CapSource has provided me with some really wonderful companies to work with. Their software and added services make designing and managing project-based collaborations easyI The students come up with such clever ideas working in teams on real-world cases and projects. I highly recommend adopting this for an upcoming course!
“My students learned a lot by working on this Live Case Project with Hioki. Maki and her team from Hioki were amazing. They provided not only real world experience and opportunity to my students, but they were also very good about providing my students with industry insights and other information. I am so impressed with the opportunity provided to my students by Jordan Levy and his Capsource team that I want to continue doing the Live Case Projects for all my courses every semester. I appreciate Toby White’s leadership and initiative in developing this program for SUNY Potsdam. This collaboration creates such a huge value addition to the education we provide to our students, and will surely give them a competitive advantage in comparison to their peers at other Higher Ed institutions. I encourage all my colleagues to incorporate the Live Case Projects in all of their courses.”
“My students learned a lot by working on this Live Case Project with Hioki. Maki and her team from Hioki were amazing. They provided not only real world experience and opportunity to my students, but they were also very good about providing my students with industry insights and other information. I am so impressed with the opportunity provided to my students by Jordan Levy and his Capsource team that I want to continue doing the Live Case Projects for all my courses every semester. I appreciate Toby White’s leadership and initiative in developing this program for SUNY Potsdam. This collaboration creates such a huge value addition to the education we provide to our students, and will surely give them a competitive advantage in comparison to their peers at other Higher Ed institutions. I encourage all my colleagues to incorporate the Live Case Projects in all of their courses.”
I really enjoyed working with both industry partners. Both of the projects were ideal for social work students. Our students learned so much and did so much research. It was so neat for the Dean to also see how passionate our students were about homelessness and the environment. When people think of social workers, they think of counseling, not all the other things that we can that we do. I thought these projects were a really excellent way for social work students to build their skills and discover new ways they can serve as industry professionals.
I really enjoyed working with both industry partners. Both of the projects were ideal for social work students. Our students learned so much and did so much research. It was so neat for the Dean to also see how passionate our students were about homelessness and the environment. When people think of social workers, they think of counseling, not all the other things that we can that we do. I thought these projects were a really excellent way for social work students to build their skills and discover new ways they can serve as industry professionals.
Phil and Merlin from Remote Intelligence have been terrific industry mentors. We’ve met twice via Zoom, and they’ve been to Juniata College twice to talk with students in-person and to fly drone surveys over the property where we are conducting the invasive species survey.
Phil and Merlin from Remote Intelligence have been terrific industry mentors. We’ve met twice via Zoom, and they’ve been to Juniata College twice to talk with students in-person and to fly drone surveys over the property where we are conducting the invasive species survey.
I appreciate all your help and the help of the CapSource team.
I appreciate all your help and the help of the CapSource team.
You did a masterful job of going from the big picture on adidas’ 3 strategic pillars through to your product innovations, digital strategies, influencer partnerships and grassroots efforts. I think the students have a far better sense of how challenging and exciting your work is and I know we’ll have great ideas for this project based on the time you provided today.
You did a masterful job of going from the big picture on adidas’ 3 strategic pillars through to your product innovations, digital strategies, influencer partnerships and grassroots efforts. I think the students have a far better sense of how challenging and exciting your work is and I know we’ll have great ideas for this project based on the time you provided today.
I never used to have a summer as it was spent sourcing companies for projects and sorting out all the details in Excel. This platform has given me an environment to do everything I used to do manually. It has truly been a blessing!
I never used to have a summer as it was spent sourcing companies for projects and sorting out all the details in Excel. This platform has given me an environment to do everything I used to do manually. It has truly been a blessing!
To Melissa and the whole team at Centric Br ands, thank you for your generosity, time, effort and letting us into your space! Thank you for believing us and the students, and giving us such an incredible responsibility of working on the HERVE br and launch. This was real life – not just a made up project. The students truly gave it their all to deliver the best results to your team!
To Melissa and the whole team at Centric Br ands, thank you for your generosity, time, effort and letting us into your space! Thank you for believing us and the students, and giving us such an incredible responsibility of working on the HERVE br and launch. This was real life – not just a made up project. The students truly gave it their all to deliver the best results to your team!
The student work on the Centric Br ands HERVE project was tremendous. This was a real challenge, with a real br and. The students had a chance to apply what they’re learning in the classroom to something that was completely real-world and relevant.
The student work on the Centric Br ands HERVE project was tremendous. This was a real challenge, with a real br and. The students had a chance to apply what they’re learning in the classroom to something that was completely real-world and relevant.
I just want to thank Jordan and the CapSource team, Phyllis and IACBE, and the team Ronald McDonald House at Jacksonville for giving our students an opportunity to participate in experiential learning opportunity, and to provide feedback about how to take the classroom to a real-world issue and context. On behalf of Excelsior College, very appreciative of your time, expertise, and leadership. Beyond that, this provided a chance for our online students to engage with one another and with our instructional faculty in a different way. Very, very appreciative. Great learning opportunity! Great job by Ever Upward team too.
I just want to thank Jordan and the CapSource team, Phyllis and IACBE, and the team Ronald McDonald House at Jacksonville for giving our students an opportunity to participate in experiential learning opportunity, and to provide feedback about how to take the classroom to a real-world issue and context. On behalf of Excelsior College, very appreciative of your time, expertise, and leadership. Beyond that, this provided a chance for our online students to engage with one another and with our instructional faculty in a different way. Very, very appreciative. Great learning opportunity! Great job by Ever Upward team too.
“One of the main priorities for the SUNY Potsdam Lougheed Applied Learning Center is make experiential learning accessible for all our students and faculty. Adopting the CapSource CONNECT system has enabled us to better manage our growing network of industry partners so that we that we can more effectively coordinate and track projects across all three of our colleges.”
“One of the main priorities for the SUNY Potsdam Lougheed Applied Learning Center is make experiential learning accessible for all our students and faculty. Adopting the CapSource CONNECT system has enabled us to better manage our growing network of industry partners so that we that we can more effectively coordinate and track projects across all three of our colleges.”
Experiential learning is especially critical for business programs since blending theory and practice allows the students to build their confidence as they prepare for their professional careers. CapSource provides us with access to companies we would otherwise not be able to work with. They make it easy to identify the right organizations for every course given the overall structure, desired rigor, and teaching objectives.
Experiential learning is especially critical for business programs since blending theory and practice allows the students to build their confidence as they prepare for their professional careers. CapSource provides us with access to companies we would otherwise not be able to work with. They make it easy to identify the right organizations for every course given the overall structure, desired rigor, and teaching objectives.
I first learned of CapSource when one my colleagues highly recommended them. They have been incredible collaborators when Ramapo College hosted groups of business students (both graduate and undergraduate) from overseas universities. He masterfully crafted a panel of entrepreneurs, start-up experts and companies from his expansive network. The international students gained insights into the business environment in the metro-NYC area, as well as sharing ideas, posing critical questions and brainstorming solutions within this inter-cultural group of individuals. Ramapo College will continue to work with Jordan and CapSource and highly recommend any higher education institution to collaborate with them as well.
I first learned of CapSource when one my colleagues highly recommended them. They have been incredible collaborators when Ramapo College hosted groups of business students (both graduate and undergraduate) from overseas universities. He masterfully crafted a panel of entrepreneurs, start-up experts and companies from his expansive network. The international students gained insights into the business environment in the metro-NYC area, as well as sharing ideas, posing critical questions and brainstorming solutions within this inter-cultural group of individuals. Ramapo College will continue to work with Jordan and CapSource and highly recommend any higher education institution to collaborate with them as well.