Transformation/Role: Teach Process Mining with Real Data

Teach Process Mining with Real Data

Why it matters

Students learn process thinking by applying it, not by memorizing notation. Yet many courses rely on limited academic tools, broken lab exercises, or materials that do not reflect how teams work in industry.

ProcessMind gives you a browser-based environment for the full process curriculum. You can teach BPMN 2.0, help students discover processes from real event logs, and test redesigns with simulation. There is nothing to install, and students can work from any laptop.

Through the free Academic Alliance, you can give students practical experience with the same core methods used in professional process improvement.

How to approach it

1. Mine: Start with anonymized event logs and guide students through process discovery. They can identify bottlenecks, compare process variants, and analyze conformance between documented and actual processes. Class-ready exercises help you connect concepts to practical assignments.

2. Model: Use the BPMN editor to teach notation through increasingly complex exercises, from simple flows to pools and lanes. Students can model current-state and to-be processes, document their assumptions, and submit models for review.

3. Simulate: Have students test proposed redesigns and compare cycle times, costs, and capacity. Require evidence for each assignment: the model, simulation results, and the reasoning behind the recommendation.

You can also use collaboration and comment threads for team projects. Read-only share links make submissions easier to review and grade. Beginner resources help you build lessons without creating every course material from scratch.

What you can expect

With a structured, hands-on curriculum, students typically build stronger BPMN and Process Mining skills than they would through theory alone. You can expect:

• More reliable lab exercises based on real process data
• Practical experience with discovery, modeling, conformance analysis, and simulation
• Course materials and datasets you can reuse across semesters
• Less installation and licensing work for you and your students
• Skills that align more closely with process improvement work in industry

The Academic Alliance gives you a free way to introduce these capabilities without adding tool costs to your course.

Getting started

Apply for the free Academic Alliance and set up a browser-based process lab. Begin with one event log, one BPMN modeling exercise, and one simulation assignment. Then expand the course with team projects, conformance analysis, and redesign challenges.

ProcessMind helps you teach the complete improvement cycle: mine the process, model the opportunity, simulate the change, and evaluate the evidence.