Hey everybody, if you fail, the HTML compression test have no fear. It’s not Rocket Science to setup. In fact, it’s as simple as it can be, and it will very well help improved the page load time of your website, thereby improving user experience and from there help you to climb up search engine rankings. If you got a gigantic site that requires a lot of bandwidth to serve.
This is one easy way to reduce server cost, but even for smaller Websites, it does make a significant difference in page size, it’s one of the easiest ways to Optimize Your Site.
So really, there are no good excuses not to do it. So, what is it exactly? Html Compression is a technique that we all know from archiving files and directories with archive compression programs like WinZip, WinRAR, 7zip and others. What HTML Compression does basically is it takes your HTML code, looks for similar strings within it and replaces them with shorter strings, Resulting in less code and therefore smaller file size. No, but this is not the same thing as Minification, Though that’s a fine method as well.
If that’s, what you’re into Minification is the process of eliminating all the spaces, the line, breaks, Empty lines, indentation and so on within your code, that makes it easier for humans to read and work with. Non-Humans don’t need all this buffers to visualize the contents of the code So with Minification we can trim all that fat Which results in a slightly smaller file size, That’s well and good. And yes, this will translate into less bandwidth requirements to deliver your code from a Server and deliver to someone’s Browser.
But compression goes that one step further. It searches for the similar strings, like I just mentioned, and replaces them with shorter references resulting in much less code. For example, let’s say I’ve got all these Closing div tags. After a certain section on my web page, There is 12 of these with greater than and less than signs The slashes, the d’s, the i’s the v’s.
But don’t worry this not something that you have to do manually, so don’t get rattled here, I’m just showing you how the process works. Minification will do this, or compression will look at that and say Actually, instead of seeing this as 72 characters let’s look at this as 6 characters repeated 12 times. We got these first 6 characters, the greater than sign The slash D I V And a less than sign.
We’Ll keep this as our reference And make a second reference to the first symbol, starting 6 characters back And will say: let’s use the next 6 characters from there. So now we’ve got our first closing div and our second closing div, Since the next 10 closing div.’s are the exact same. We can make this refer to the next 60 characters And, while all What started as a 72 character, uncompressed in their original form Can now be represented by just 14 Characters in total compressed format.
So that’s the basic idea If we apply this to our entire page, with all the div tags and all the tags like body, paragraph images lines and so on, As well as herb’s, all our Style classes and so on… Our uncompressed web page. That clocks in at a 167mb, comes down to a lean and mean 78mb once compressed A whopping 46 % reduction in file size, Rock and Roll. Then, when a user requests our content, our server sends that smaller compressed code
The User receives it, their browser, decompresses it and boom they’ve got our content So yeah. This last action does take time in CPU, but in almost all cases it takes much less time than transferring your HTML content in the larger uncompressed format. So that’s how it works again, don’t need to sleep over these details. You don’t need to mess with your code or know how to write Algorithms to make this work. All that is taken care of the most common HTML compression methods are DEFLATE and GZIP And honestly, there is not a gigantic difference between them.
They both use the same compression method, The same Algorithms, But GZIP also contains a checksum and a header footer. So, DEFLATE is technically faster, but you also technically risk both the payloads, since there is no checksum Anyway go ahead and research. This more. If you like it’s worth your time, but in my opinion, to make your tomorrow in my case, I use GZIP because its good enough and it’s on the side of safety in terms of delivering content Now to implement either of them is pretty simple. It just depends on what kind of server you are running, or you have an .htaccess file. If you get an htaccess file, simply edit it and add this Deflate codes to it or for GZIP. Add this GZIP codes.
Save and Done Get back crack those methods and waste. Those hearing behind your head, Your HTML, is now compressed And user is requesting. Your content will automatically receive that compressed content Which will decompress in your browsers. If you’re running on NGINX yo want to add it to your NGINX config file, Add the following: Save Close and restart the Server and on Windows server.
It’s even easier. You can just open up your IIS manager, click on the siting, question Click compression And enable STATIC COMPRESSION And for WordPress users, it’s still best to add it to your .htaccess file directly, like I showed it to you a minute ago, But WordPress also has a Built-in Gzip compression In your option, which leverages PHP Again it’s better to do it through your .htaccess file but Hey if it’s too daunting. For some reason, then this method also works and when you’re done, assuming you have a GZIP, you can Google GZIP compression Tool And test your webpages to make sure it’s working feel free to check out our other videos. So you can keep fine-tuning and getting the most out of your SEO and click subscribe to stay, updated with new tips and tricks to get you to the top of the search engine results pages.
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Let me guess—you love Notion, and it’s life changing for you. You use it to organize your travel plans, your studies, your work, your fridge, your everything! But now you’re wondering: could I possibly make money selling my Notion templates? And the answer is YES! In this video, I’ll walk you through everything you need to know to make money selling Notion templates online.
We’re going to dive into a few things. We’re going to talk about: How much money you can realistically make selling Notion templates online, How to prep your templates for sale, How to actually sell your Notion templates – and this is where you and I will build an online store together from scratch, How to actually get people to buy your templates, And finally, some additional tips on how to make Notion templates that people are going to be willing to spend money on.
So let’s get started! So let’s talk about the big question first—how much money can you actually make selling Notion templates online? One of the biggest Notion template creators, Easlo, has actually earned over $500,000 selling his templates online.
And you might think yeah, okay, that’s one guy. What about everybody else? So, let’s take a look. First, let’s head over to Etsy, and type in Notion templates in the search bar. Now, we’re going to use a Chrome extension tool to check out the estimates for each of these products.
There are a few of these tools available, so just choose the ones that you like best. Now bear in mind that these are just estimates, but they still give us a pretty good idea of the demand in general. As you can see, some templates are pulling in estimated sales of over $2,000 a month. And this one? It’s over $6,000 a month!
But wait, Etsy isn’t the only place people are buying Notion templates.
You can also sell your templates on eCommerce platforms like Payhip, which as an added bonus: your online store with Payhip will show up in Google search results, making it easier for buyers to find your store and your templates organically. Plus, Payhip has an online marketplace exclusively for digital products so you can reach buyers for free. I’ll talk more about that a little later. To prove just how in-demand Notion templates are, let’s talk about Google Keyword Planner— another free tool.
When you search for “Notion templates,” you’ll see there are tens of thousands of searches monthly, just in the US alone! And it gets even better.
When you niche down to specific search terms like “Notion templates for students” or “Notion templates for productivity,” you’ll find consistent search volumes there, too. That’s a clear signal that these niches are hot, and people are actively looking for templates to use and buy. So now I’m going to show you how YOU can take advantage of that demand!
Now, let’s turn your Notion page into an actual saleable template! Just as a heads up, I’m going to assume you already know how to create a Notion page and you’ve probably made some that you’re really proud of. If not, don’t worry! There are tons of free YouTube tutorials out there that’ll actually teach you how to get you started. But, if you want ME to specifically cover that topic, leave a comment down below.
So, let’s focus on the subsequent part, which is getting your template ready for sale.
Here’s what you’re going to need to do: First, you’re going to need to turn your Notion page into a shareable Notion template Start by opening the Notion page that you want to sell as a template. Click the “share” button, and click “duplicate as template”. This will ensure that the buyers can copy the template into their own Notion accounts without messing with your original. Then grab this template link, hold onto it, because that’s the magic key that you’ll be selling.
Next, use a free tool like Canva to create a professional-looking PDF. Include clear instructions on how to use the template, visuals showcasing the template’s features, and paste the actual Notion template link into this PDF. Download that beautiful PDF, and you’re done! This is what you’ll upload to your online store, and it’s also what you’re going to be actually giving to your customers when they make a purchase.
Make sure it’s a good balance between helpful and visually appealing.
If you guys are curious about what your customers will see when they click the link to your Notion template, they’ll see a “Duplicate” button in the right corner. This allows them to duplicate the template into their own Notion account and customize it however they want, without touching the original. Now it’s time to set up an online store and start selling your templates!
To do this, you’ll need an eCommerce platform that handles everything from listing your products to delivering it to customers automatically after they make a purchase. I highly recommend using Payhip—it’s budget friendly, easy to use, and it’s packed with powerful eCommerce features.
There’s also no monthly fees—you’ll pay a 5% fee on each sale, which means if you don’t sell anything, you don’t pay anything, it’s as simple as that! Payhip also sends your digital products directly to your customers right after they make a purchase, so you can sit back and relax, and let the platform do the heavy lifting. Payhip’s drag-and-drop store builder makes it super easy to create a beautiful storefront with no coding skills required.
And the cherry on top is that Payhip has an online marketplace to help you reach new buyers, and you don’t pay anything to have your products listed there. So let’s get started.
First, sign up for a Payhip account—it’s completely free, and no credit cards required Next, add your payout information so you can get paid as soon as orders start rolling in. Payhip provides instant payouts after each transaction, so you don’t have to wait a long time for your hard-earned money! Next, let’s upload your product listing. Head to the product tab, click add new product, and select the digital product category. Upload the PDF file that you’ve created previously, and fill out the rest of the product information.
Make sure to include a clear and keyword-rich title and description to help your products rank on Google search. Hit “add product” to publish your product listing. Your product page is now live, but let’s take it to the next level: Go to Payhip’s store builder, and select the product page that you’ve just uploaded.
Add an FAQ section, video demos, or other useful details to enhance your product page. You can make these kinds of changes to individual product pages, or to all of your product pages all at once.
You can also customize the entire look and feel of your store through Payhip’s online store builder. I’ll link a more comprehensive tutorial on how to do that in the video description box below. If you already have a website, you can easily embed your Payhip product listing on your existing website as well. And just like that, you’ve got a fully functional online store ready to sell your Notion templates! Now here are a few pro tips to boost your store even further: If you want to let customers download your templates for free or donate to support you, you can use Payhip’s Pay-What-You-Want feature.
Go into your product listings, and set the price to “0+” to allow free downloads with the option to donate. Or for example, set it to “5+”, that way your customers have to pay at least of $5 but they can donate more if they really love your work.
This is perfect for creators who want to offer flexible pricing while encouraging support from their audience. Another really amazing tip to generate more income is that, if you have a library of Notion templates, consider launching a membership or subscription. With Payhip, you can set up a membership product where customers will have a recurring fee and become your members or patrons to have exclusive access to all your templates.
It’s a fantastic way to build a steady income stream while providing a lot of value to your customers. Now that you’ve got an amazing store and equally as amazing products, it’s time to tackle the big question: how do you actually get people to buy your Notion templates? We’re going to focus on FREE marketing strategies you can use to attract buyers and drive sales.
The first and most crucial step is to publish your Notion templates on online marketplaces. This is especially important if you don’t already have a large social media following.
There are two marketplaces that I highly recommend because there are no fees to list there. First, submit your templates to Payhip’s marketplace. This is super easy—all you have to do is set the right category for your product on your Payhip listing. Once that’s done, your product is automatically submitted to the marketplace, giving it exposure to tens of thousands of potential buyers. Next, add your templates to the Notion Marketplace, because…well that’s where all the Notion users are.
To submit your template, head to Notion’s Marketplace at Notion.so/templates, Scroll down to see the prompt to sign up as a Notion creator. As you fill out your Creator profile, you’ll see that Notion asks you to fill out your information on Stripe, but you can skip that part entirely because Notion actually charges a pretty hefty 10% fee and $0.40 per transaction, and Notion only pays out every two weeks if meet a $20 payout threshold, which is not ideal.
But here’s the good news: Notion allows you to link to third-party platforms like Payhip.
This means you can enjoy instant payouts and a much lower 5% fee from Payhip while still getting the traffic that the Notion Marketplace will drive. So…just skip this Stripe section altogether and proceed to create your Creator profile. Click Start a New Template, and put the link to your Notion template here.
Then add your template title, category, and URL slug. Toggle the paid template button to set a price.
And input your Payhip listing URL under this Purchase URL column. Enter a brief and full description for your product, then click Submit for Review. Once submitted, your template will go through a review process, and if approved, it’s added to the marketplace for everyone to discover. Just keep in mind, you’ll need to repeat this process for every template you create. While Payhip and Notion are my top picks, you can also consider Etsy.
It’s a well-known platform with a massive audience, but keep in mind they do have higher fees at 6.5% per sale and they also require a listing fee even if your product doesn’t sell. Another free marketing strategy is to leverage social media Share your templates on platforms like Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook, wherever you’re most comfortable. Use short videos or reels to show how your templates solve a problem or make life easier, and make sure to include your Payhip store link in every social media bio. One platform worth highlighting is Pinterest.
Unlike other platforms where content has a short lifespan, Pinterest pins can continue to drive traffic for months and months. Plus, you can include direct links to your Notion templates right in your pins, making it more likely to convert people into customers.
Since Pinterest acts more like a search engine, using targeted keywords in your pin descriptions can help you reach the right audience. Just remember, standard pins take 6–8 months to rank, so think of this as more of a long-term strategy. Another powerful tactic is offering a freebie to start building an email list.
Create a mini version of your template, upload it to your store, and set the price to $0 or “Pay What You Want.” Use the email addresses you collect from this to start promoting your paid templates and build a loyal customer base.
You can also boost visibility by starting a blog where you talk about productivity tips or Notion hacks, and link back to your templates. You can easily launch your blog on Payhip by going to the Store tab, then go to the Blog Posts tab. And yes, this is also a powerful tool that Payhip offers for free.
And don’t forget the power of an affiliate program —give your customers or fans the chance to promote your products for a small commission. This way, they become your brand ambassadors, spreading the word on your behalf. You can easily launch your own affiliate program for free using Payhip. Just head over to the Marketing tab and set up your affiliate program here. The key is really to just make sure you’re visible everywhere that your potential buyers could be.
Combine these strategies that we just talked about, and you’ll be well on your way to attracting consistent sales! Once your store is up and running, the next step is creating more and more templates that will bring in scalable passive income.
Let’s talk about how you can create Notion templates that people would actually want to pay money for. First things first: you need to make sure there’s demand for your template Choosing a profitable niche is so important. A great way to gauge the demand is by looking at the search volume—how many people are actively searching for a specific type of Notion template.
Start simple: go to Google and type “Notion template for…” and see what Google’s autocomplete suggests.
Those autocomplete results are based on what people are already searching for. Jot these down in a separate document because they’re valuable clues. Next, use Google Keyword Planner (and yes, it’s free!) to check the exact search volumes for those keywords.
This will show you how many people are searching for them every single month. Here’s the trick: aim to create a template that has a good mix of low-traffic and high-traffic keywords. Low-traffic keywords are less competitive, which makes it easier for you to rank on Google. A.k.
a. It’s easier for people to find you and your online store. High-traffic keywords, on the other hand, signal strong demand. The goal is to draw them in with those low-traffic keywords and then introduce them to your other high-demand templates once they’re in your store.
This approach will make sure that you’re not just creating templates for the sake of it—you’re making ones that people are actively searching for, giving you a much greater chance of making consistent sales.
Next, your template needs to solve a specific problem. Don’t try to create a template that does everything for everyone—it’s overwhelming and it’s hard to market. Instead, focus on a well-defined audience and their pain points. Think about how your template can save them time, effort, or money. For example, content creators often need a social media planner.
Freelancers might be looking for a client tracker. Even with those categories, your template can be further refined. A social media planner for an independent creator might differ from one tailored to a marketing manager at a company. The more niche your template is, the more it will stand out and attract buyers.
It also helps to have an understanding of the specific processes within your niche.
For instance, if you’re designing for social media managers at companies, you might want to include features for approval workflows. The team at Notion also mentions that there are a few things that will actually increase the value of your templates. These are: formulas, automations, integrations and embeds, charts and forms, buttons, AI blocks, scalability, and educational elements. Next, analyze your competitors within your niche, and read their customer reviews if they have any. That way you can take those constructive criticisms and build a much better template to address those issues.
You can also enhance your offer by bundling your Notion template with something extra, like an online course or video training that teaches users how to effectively use your template. This added value not only makes your product more appealing but also allows you to charge a premium price while helping your customers get the most out of your template. Finally, make your templates visually appealing This doesn’t just mean the template itself but also your product listing images—they’re essentially your product packaging, and yes, people do judge a book by its cover. Also, believe it or not people will purchase Notion templates simply because they have a specific aesthetic like minimalist, or cute pastel themed social media calendar. Clean and organized designs will always attract more buyers and make your templates look polished and professional.
Plus, great-looking templates make for way better social media content, which helps with marketing. And that’s it! Hopefully you guys now have everything you need to start selling Notion templates and establish a profitable passive income stream. If you found this video helpful, please give it a thumbs up—it really helps us out—and make sure to subscribe for more tips like these. Let us know if you have any questions at all – we’re happy to answer them in the comment section.
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[Dean Ayanna Howard] In 2017, The Ohio State University joined the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network, known as KEEN, a coalition of engineering programs from across the nation committed to preparing its students with an entrepreneurial mindset. As a KEEN member, we are focused on integrating an entrepreneurial mindset into undergraduate engineering. It has become part of our culture. We believe that an entrepreneurial mindset, coupled with engineering skills, expressed through collaboration and communication and founded on character, is the key to unleashing human potential in order to solve societal problems.
Professor David Tomasko is the College of Engineering’s associate dean for academic programs and student services.
He was part of the team that advocated for our involvement in KEEN, and he’s currently co-leading a KEEN-funded project. David, I’m thrilled you’re on the pod today! Let’s talk about engineering entrepreneurs, or should we say Engi-preneurs. [David Tomasko] I love that, thanks for having me.
Anytime we get to talk about education, I’m all in.
[Dean Ayanna Howard] So all of us know what an entrepreneur is, but help our listeners understand what an entrepreneurial mindset is and why it’s so important for our students to have.
[ David Tomasko] Entrepreneurial mindset is a framework that the Kern Family Foundation and kind of began as a way of describing what they thought Engineers ought to have as they go out into the workforce. It’s really centered around three C’s: curiosity, connections, and creating value. In many ways, instilling an entrepreneurial mindset involves kind of turning engineering education into a process away from a building block of here’s what I know and trying to get students to think about what are the opportunities for me to make an impact with what I know, it’s all about connotation, right? When I think of an entrepreneur like yourself, I think of someone who has started up a company or wants to start up a company.
They want to be out on their own, very independent. But when you think about it, you don’t have to have that drive to actually understand and think like an entrepreneur.
In fact, many corporations have called it entrepreneurship, right? The entrepreneurial mindset is really capturing that aspect of entrepreneurship that is about seeking and finding the opportunity to make an impact, right?
And I can do that regardless of the type of job I’m in.
I don’t have to be the person in charge, and I don’t have to be trying to build a company. But I can do it within my local context if I’m working for a large corporation or for myself. [Dean Ayanna Howard] So, I love this concept of creating value and really thinking about engineers and our role in creating impact.
Of course, it’s about thinking about the value. So, if you think about this framework and the KEEN framework with the 3 C’s, how have we brought that to our classes?
[David Tomasko] It’s an ongoing process, and you can imagine that those concepts are very broad. So, individual faculty members are encouraged to promote this kind of framework and then be creative with it. What we’ve done so far since our involvement with KEEN back in 2018-2019 or so as we started with the first-year program, the 1181-1182 sequence. What that has turned into is away from a set of lab experiences where you are simply demonstrating. Here’s what electrical engineering might do, here’s what ISC might be, so on and so forth.
It’s now more of a project, and it’s presented to the students as, “Here’s an opportunity for you to make an impact. How might you approach this problem using the design process, for example?” Which involves curiosity, involves having to drawing connections to everything else you’ve learned, and most importantly, it’s about creating value for others.
Which is a different way of thinking rather than the student being here simply to absorb information. It’s really kind of empowering students to think about how they can apply information.
[Dean Ayanna Howard]
So, I’m pretty sure that our listeners would have never imagined someone saying Engineers, faculty, curiosity, and creativity, but that’s really what it is. [David Tomasko] Yeah, very much so. In fact, the other end of the spectrum where we’re applying this is in the Capstone program. Where many of the faculty actually, let the students apply creativity. When you present this framework to a person teaching Capstone projects, they look at it and say, “Yeah, that’s what I do.
We just haven’t called it that.” Right? And so this is the other aspect of the framework that’s actually very helpful to engineering education. Is that it gets all the different disciplines speaking a common language around this because our students are going to go out and have to work together anyway. Wouldn’t it be nice if they all had kind of a common language upon which they could build?
[Dean Ayanna Howard]
That would be very nice, and I love this concept of students entering their first contact with engineering in the first year of engineering through this framework and then when they end their journey here at Ohio State in capstone, which means that they’ve understood this whole connection of “I have no idea what engineering is, now I understand creating value,” and then as a senior, it’s like, “Oh, I got it.” [David Tomasko] That’s the idea, right? and you and I both know that there’s a lot of hard work that goes on in between.
And in fact the current aspect of the grant, the current faculty we’re trying to work with, are actually those middle faculty.
We’d like to see them reinforce this all the way through so they can find a way when they’re teaching digital design, digital circuitry design, or teaching thermodynamics classes that are traditionally very hard.
You can still talk about curiosity, creating value, and connections even in those very hard-core engineering courses. [Dean Ayanna Howard] I’m sold on this KEEN framework. Since we’ve become KEEN members, what differences have you noticed among our faculty, students, curriculum, and of course, as a data person, how are we actually measuring impact? [David Tamasko] It’s fascinating.
We are one of the few members of the network that actually has an engineering education department and education research faculty who are actually building tools to be able to do such assessments.
As you referred to. I’d like to if i can talk a little bit about one aspect of our current project where we’re trying to figure that out. Cause honestly most of the impact we observe is anecdotal at this point. I can’t point to numbers, right and I know you would ask for that. So, it’s a little frustrating, right.
So, one of the things we’re trying to do, is actually trying to measure the impact on students and see if our teaching in this framework has changed the way a student talks about and expresses their work on engineering problem-solving.
So, we have reintegrated or revised and rewritten the rubrics used in the OHI\O hackathon and the Megathon, which are strictly student-driven not classroom activities, right.
So, the students are kind of free to express themselves in their own way, and we’re going to try and measure whether students articulate some of this 3C language and some of the framework language as we have them present their hack projects. With no requirements to do so, we’re going to see if it bubbles up. I fully expect that the first time that we measure this, we’re going to get very little.
That’s just the nature of students right. But over time if we really are making an impact on the way a student thinks about their own problem-solving process, they’ll start to talk about the idea about creating value in doing what they’re doing.
Or the idea they connected with their solution from among all of the things they have learned before. So, that’s what we hope to measure, as we go through this project. [Dean Ayanna Howard] So, you mentioned the current project.
SO, this is the one title extending the EM ecosystem from the research professional practice and the student experience?
[David Tomasko] Yes, [Dean Ayanna Howard] Okay. [David Tomasko] And that’s the student experience piece that I just described. [Dean Ayanna Howard] Okay. So, there’s a lot of words in that title.
[David Tomasko] Yes, [laughs] and so, thinking about I know it only begin a few months ago. Give us somethings you are seeking to accomplish with this new project? [David Tomasko] Sure, it’s really broken into three sub-projects, which is why the title is so long because it has to include all of those but the student experience piece, and what I just spoke about, with trying to measure student responses out of the hackathon. The other big piece is the education research piece, where we are trying to actually develop assessment instruments that that get at the idea of making connections and creating value, and curiosity. It turns out that as you might guess not engineering education research, but education research there’s a whole a lot of work on curiosity, that’s well-known and well-developed topic.
And There are already assessments out there, and we’re simply adapting them into the engineering education space. There’s very little in the space of trying to measure how students think about creating value and how they do it. And how they make connections, So, were actually in the research space, developing assessment that we then hope other faculty across the network, nationwide will help us validate and help us use. So that we can collect that kind of impact data as to how the way that people implement the 3Cs in their classroom has the effect on students’ outcomes. That’s project 2. Project 3 is really that other piece that I alluded to earlier about back getting more faculty across all the disciplines. Trying to integrate the framework into this the engineering core courses.
The places that are the just notorious for being the hard courses that that have so much homework and so much difficult material, that it really is ripe for a bit of rejuvenation I would say in the approach to teaching those courses.
So, that’s the third part, we call them professional learning communities.
Where we involve the faculty and we also involve graduate students allow especially if they want to become faculty, we do graduate students and postdocs in there that’s why we call them professional learning communities instead of Faculty learning communities.
students and postdocs in there. That’s why we call them professional learning communities instead of Faculty learning communities. [Dean Ayanna Howard]: So you know, I can think about what the professional learning communities. We have some control because they’re in College of Engineering, they’re all at Ohio State. But you mentioned something around sharing assessments around the KEEN Network and being able to measure the impact.
Yeah, if you think about the difficulties with that, any thoughts? [David Tomasko]: Well, so it turns out that there is a well-established network.
The network is about,
I want to say, 60 to 70 institutions strong now. And I’ll just, you know, for listeners, if they want to visit engineeringunleashed.com, which is kind of the home of the network, you can log in and download all of these different approaches that faculty have taken.
That’s our sharing space. That’s the space where all the faculty are putting things up and saying, “Here’s what I’m doing. This has to do with creating value in a structural dynamics class. This is what I’m doing to show connections in thermodynamics.” Right, and you can actually go in there and search by your discipline, search by your topic, or search by one of the framework keywords and see other things that people are doing.
So, it will actually, it sounds difficult to get other people to get involved, but it turns out that once you get into the network and you make some friends, we are, you know, it’s actually quite easy. We have several of our faculty who are also jointly working with projects led out of Rowan University, out of Bucknell, all over the place. So, it really is kind of the foundation that fosters the development of this network in a really impactful way on the faculty. [Dean Ayanna Howard]: So, what’s interesting is that we know there’s more than 60 to 70 engineering colleges around the world. But yet, you can have someone who is interested, who’s maybe not necessarily tied into the KEEN Network, just engineeringunleashed.com, and they have access, which is wonderful. [David Tomasko] Exactly, exactly. [Dean Ayanna Howard] So, this entrepreneurial-minded learning could be a nationwide initiative, really? [David Tomasko]: Yes, yes, absolutely. [Dean Ayanna Howard]: So, it makes so much sense to me.
I mean, if you think about when we were undergrads, it was nothing like this.
[David Tomasko]: No, that’s true. You know, I’ve gotten to think, especially as I was looking over what we were going to talk about today, I started to realize another way of framing engineering education is that students come out of high school and they’re still used to a very transactional form of education. You do this. I will grade it, and I will return to you some points or a grade.
Our first-year program still has to kind of operate in that way because that’s the mindset that students are coming to us in. And then they’re trying their best to kind of get them into a different kind of mindset in that first year so that when they get into the second year, we can start really developing foundational tools and knowledge that they have to do in their discipline.
You know, like it or not, your students are still going to have to survive differential equations, still going to have to survive, you know, statics and dynamics, and whatever the disciplines are. But then, really, I think the real impact of this mindset is showing up as students get to be seniors and they get to – they start to develop that foundational knowledge and now learn how to apply it. It’s the opportunities that we start to open their eyes to.
And so, I think the real change that we’re going to see as a result of the network is that students are going to graduate knowing that: A) they’ve got knowledge, B) they know how to apply it, but C) they start to see the world as opportunities instead of just tasks and assignments.
Right, that’s – that, to me, is the real value. And furthermore, you’ll have not just mechanical engineers coming out thinking that, you’ll have Electrical Engineers, Computer Science, Chemicals, Material Scientists, and they’ll all kind of – you know, if we do this well and infiltrate it well, you’ll have a whole lot of students coming out, and they’ll actually make connections with each other much more quickly, and they’ll get off to a running start in their careers much more quickly.
[ Dean Ayanna Howard] So, mine is the little part about learning differential equations for engineers. I actually [ David Tomasko] substitute discreet math.
[Dean Ayanna Howard] I mean, if you really think about this concept, I love the three C’s of the entrepreneurial mindset for students: curiosity, connections, and of course, creating value.
I mean, honestly, I wish we could apply this concept throughout our entire lives of all the things that go on, yeah. So, while I asked David to be my guest today, there are so many faculty and staff involved in this movement, and I’m grateful for each of them.
The world needs more engine webpreneurs, and they might as well be Buckeyes. Thank you for having me.
I’m looking forward to seeing all of this play out in real time.
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