Course Description
Helps students identify, design, and build a prototype of an innovation for education or learning. The goal is to eventually integrate and implement that innovation as part of a research agenda during your graduate studies.
Athena Title
Design Thinking in LDT
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in EDIT 8190E
Non-Traditional Format
Students will work independently with tools, but there will be regular class meetings to help shape the research plan and assist with development.
Prerequisite
Permission of department
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall and spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
Upon completion of the course, each student will be able to: 1. Design and build a prototype of an innovation relevant to education, training, and learning; 2. Reflect and write about the design of your innovation prototype; 3. Write design documents that explain and provide a rationale for your innovation prototype; 4. Build a public Web site to support and explain your innovation prototype that integrates the design documents and other resources; and 5. Develop skill and confidence in presenting your ideas and discussing course topics orally in small and large group settings.
Topical Outline
1. Tool skill development 2. Authoring software skill development 3. Learning design concepts 4. General design concepts 5. Visual design concepts 6. Personal design concepts 7. Developing plan for design-based research to support innovation 8. Applying design-based research methods to a plan to systematically research the design and development of the project
Syllabus
Public CV