Informal education of students of the first (bachelor) level of higher education under the OPP “Information technologies in business” on the course “Creation and development of IT products” from the IT company Genesis and the NGO “Educational Foundation of Product IT”

02.11.2024 | 16:29

As part of the educational component “Economics and organization of the production of software products” (teacher – Doctor of Economics, professor, head of the department of digital economy and business analytics Iryna SHEVCHUK), students of the first (bachelor’s) level of higher education (group UFE-31c) successfully completed the online course “Creation and development of IT products” from IT company Genesis and NGO “Educational Foundation of Product IT”.

In 2023, Professor Iryna SHEVCHUK completed the training program for employees of higher education institutions (totaling 60 hours / 2 ECTS credits) from the Ukrainian co-founding IT company Genesis and was accredited to integrate the course “Creation and development of IT products” in her higher education institution ( Certificate No. 109/081-2023). The course is aimed at the development of IT entrepreneurship and the field of product IT in Ukraine.

In 2024-2025 the course was integrated into the academic discipline “Economics and organization of the production of software products”, which is taught to students of the III year of the OPP “Information technologies in business” specialty 051 “Economics”. For the results of the course, students will be re-enrolled in such a component of the academic discipline as independent work.

While studying on the online course, students received:

1) basic knowledge of product IT, entrepreneurship and product management;

2) competencies for the first steps in a product IT company or starting your own product IT business:

organization of the product development cycle;
organization of processes in the product team;
basics of product design;
the basics of working with market and target audience analysis tools;
the basics of marketing in product IT;
basics of product analytics;
the basics of working with decision-making tools and practices in product teams.

Thus, informal learning allows higher education students to acquire new competencies and enrich the educational process with the interesting experience of extraordinary speakers.

We thank the IT company Genesis and the NGO “Educational Foundation of Product IT” for the opportunity provided for the exchange of experience between teachers and the IT business, as well as for the growth of the personal potential of students of the ЕPP “Information Technologies in Business” !