Unit 2 A1:  Back to design thinking

Unit 2 A1: Back to design thinking

Barack Obama described that the needs of the 21st-century students are the problem solving, critical thinking, communication, collaboration, creativity, and innovation (2009, as cited in Goldman et al., 2012). Rowland suggests that a novice designer [of any kind]...
Assignment 1 Part A: visualize your ideal work environment

Assignment 1 Part A: visualize your ideal work environment

The following blog post is the result of a collaboration with Theresa McLeod-Treadwell, and I. Theresa and Beata used design thinking to develop an e-learning course component to help students to identify their career goals. To encourage intellectual risk-taking and...
A1: Empathy and Design

A1: Empathy and Design

Going through the d.school Design Process, reading the Mattelmaki et al. (2014) article and discussing it with my husband, I had the following thoughts on empathic design, empathy in the design process and its relation to my current work in teaching and web. Our...
A1: Bates on ADDIE

A1: Bates on ADDIE

Bates (2014) criticizes the inflexibility of the ADDIE model in his blog post with its frontloaded focus on design development without exact guidelines on instructor-student interactions and learning transfer during course delivery to force the instructors to go...