Tri Cosain 3.0

Tri CosainA blended program for young people, weavinginspiration, personal learning journeys and career pathsinto an inspiring pattern for work and life

Tri Cosain - our Why? Without inspiration, we merely follow paths defined by others Without learning, we lack skills and cease to grow Without career, our inspiration and learning stay in the ivory tower Together: we call forward motivated, innovative, effective “makers”, who relish life and career in balance, creating great value for themselves, for their organisations and communities and for society.

Tri Cosain - a pilot programme at Illinois Inst. ofTechnologyWeaving together students’ academic journeys with careeradvising and exploration of personal inspirationStrand 3 Strand 2 Strand 1Career development Learning journey InspirationCreating a challenging, Lifelong learning to Who am I and what dovalue-adding career build technical, I want? What inspiresfired by personal personal and me for life and work?inspiration and fueled leadership skills and What personalby lifelong professional insights - pursuing leadership resourcesand personal learning inspiration and fueling do I need to bring career advancement inspiration to life? 3

What we offer in Tri Cosain ● Inspiration strand ○ Regular in-person coaching and workshops, building on... ○ … online courses to introduce a range resources, exercises and readings ○ … a digital sourcebook ● Academic strand ○ Personalised guidance in discovering and choosing conventional and unconventional learning paths ● Career strand ○ Personalised guidance in skills and role targeting, mentoring, networking, interviewing, self-marketingAll woven together as students, coaches, mentors andadvisers work as one integrated team

How it works ● Participate in online inspiration course ● Join in regular physical and video conference discussion sessions ● Regular personal coaching from career services ● Engagement with academic advising for learning choices ● Track success in career options, decisions, outcomes

Tri Cosain shareable resources - online course ● Online inspiration course in Canvas ● Registration freely available ● https://canvas.instructure.com/enroll/D3MKFW

Tri Cosain shareable resources - resource ebooks

So what? - intentions for outcomes ● Steering learning and career preparation earlier - and together - for inspired career performance ● Better tuning between marketplace needs and individual skills and capacities ● Higher levels of inspired engagement and intrinsic motivation to contribute in organisations and society ● Fostering diversity - welcoming diverse backgrounds, experiences, and forms of inspiration ● More innovation - people bringing their best selves to work and collaborating with their best ideas ● Focused application to redress inequality for disadvantaged groups ● Improved individual and organisational performance

Provocations for educational institutions ● Modularisation as a form of Agile learning: releasing learning early and often, inspecting and adapting ● Will degrees be like horses? - we still love them, but no longer as our principal means of transportation ● Open Space as a model for self-directed learning ● Lifelong learning - don’t stop when the degree ends ● The university as lifelong learning partner ● Engagement with learners, employers, founders, incubators, accelerators, mentors... ○ What do people need to learn at and for work? ● Who and what do we mean by a teacher?

ContactsContacts:Jerry Doyle: [email protected] Downs: [email protected] Patel: [email protected] with content: www.acareercreativecurriculumOnline course:https://canvas.instructure.com/enroll/D3MKFW

What next? ● Sharing results ○ IIT pilot ■ Engineering students ■ Architecture students ■ Recent graduates and alumni ○ Celebrating success ○ Learning from failures ● Delivering in new academic and corporate settings ● Networks and communities for shared learning ● Collaboration on new and creative projects