{"id":247,"date":"2018-11-29T16:31:43","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T00:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0051\/?p=247"},"modified":"2018-11-29T16:34:59","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T00:34:59","slug":"lrnt-assignment-1-design-thinking-process-jeff-clemens-and-phyz-wilkes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0051\/lrnt-assignment-1-design-thinking-process-jeff-clemens-and-phyz-wilkes\/","title":{"rendered":"LRNT Assignment 1 – Design Thinking Process (Jeff Clemens and Phyz Wilkes)"},"content":{"rendered":"

How to effectively engage students in active participation in an safe online learning environment without being constrained?<\/span><\/p>\n

Through the Stanford d.school<\/span> design thinking process<\/span><\/a> (DTP) we were able to look at ways to effectively engage students in online learning through safe non-constrained environments. As a team we approached this process from two different angles, with one participant looking from a student lens and the other from a more instructional designer lens.<\/span><\/p>\n

The DTP evoked discussions, which led to the question of how to get learners out of their comfort zone without the feeling of being coerced. Our solution to this issue is to create an open ended assignment that allows learners to share their culture in creative ways through an online community tool, while encouraging sign up, to create synergies and cohesiveness in the online learning sphere without instructor interference. This fits well with the concepts of \u201cempathetic design\u201d (Mattelm\u00e4ki, Vaajakallio, & Koskinen, 2014) in that it would look at new or innovative collaboration that would encourage creativity. This work towards empathetic design would allow students to feel comfortable about taking the necessary risks to increase collaboration.<\/span><\/p>\n

Through the different iterations of sketching out potential prototypes, there was a common thread that transpired among us, which was encouraging a learner to start a course by sharing something they were comfortable with, which will boost the engagement process. In addition, the concept of giving the learner the ability to choose the medium to share something about their culture with their peers, allows the learners to feel comfortable, while lowering the fear around taking intellectual risks. The learners are not restricted but can be innovative in numerous ways such as filming a video in their favourite place, or using audio including speaking or music and images with accompanying text. According to Crichton and Carter (2017) using creative and organized reasoning can help learners to work collaboratively to develop, build and share ideas in stimulating ways while fostering engagement. Moreover, this allows learners to be exposed in taking intellectual risks and scaffolds the learner to a deeper and more meaningful engagement without the feeling of coercion.<\/span><\/p>\n

The other tool that was determined to be beneficial was the inclusion of a communication tool, which does not have any influence from the course instructor. This allows the learners a safe place to begin to interact and potentially share questions without a fear of being graded. It reduces the feeling of risk when it becomes a part of the class itself. There are many tools that can facilitate this but it would be best to ensure it is a tool outside of the Learning Management System (LMS). The separation from the LMS gives the learners the extra level of buffer from the course instructor. This could be done by suggesting free tools such as Google Hangouts, Slack or Discord.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is where we are looking for feedback on the potential of this solution. We want to hear from readers as to how you feel you could use this prototype in your practice and what potential issues you feel may arise once implemented? What modifications can be done to this prototype? Please leave your comments below.<\/span><\/p>\n

We will reply to all responses received no later than\u00a0 9 pm Tuesday, December 04 PST.<\/span><\/p>\n

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References<\/span><\/p>\n

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Crichton, S. & Carter, D. (2017). Taking Making into Classrooms Toolkit. Open School\/ITA.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mattelm\u00e4ki, T., Vaajakallio, K., & Koskinen, I. (2014). What happened to empathic design? Design Issues, 30(1), 67-77. doi:10.1162\/DESI_a_00249<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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