Enhancing the Digital Learning Experience: The Case of the Digital Lab of the Berner Fachhochschule

We present experiences from the establishment of the Digital Lab in our school as a means to help our students build the digital skills and capacities to conceptualize, design, implement and lead digital transformation projects. We conceived the Digital Lab as an internal soft-infrastructures building project at the Business Department of the Berner Fachhochschule. In this respect we envisioned it as a place where interesting things would take place and where people would bring their own ideas and have the opportunity to communicate or share them with others. The application area relates to the acquisition of basic skills by the students to understand the rules and the limits in sharing and trading data, acquire some sufficient level of familiarization regarding how data privacy issues affect the partnership between companies, and how existing or newly appearing business constellations can create value for data-based solutions.