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Design Thinking and Innovation in Learning, Design, and Technology


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 7190E


Prerequisite

Permission of department


Semester Course Offered

Offered every year.


Grading System

A - F (Traditional)


Student learning Outcomes

  • 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
  • 4. Build a public Web site to support and explain your innovation prototype that integrates the design documents and other resources; and

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