The Development and Evolution of Design Education From Secondary School to Tertiary Education

2018 ◽  
pp. 230-240
Author(s):  
Yi Lin Wong ◽  
Kin Wai Michael Siu
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Design Education ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Smooth Transition ◽  
Design Problems ◽  
Secondary School Education ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Development And Evolution

Design education is interdisciplinary by nature and provides a platform for students to learn different knowledge and skills and then apply them to solve design problems. It is inspirational and innovative at many different educational levels. However, the curricula of design education may not be aligned at different levels. To investigate this issue, Hong Kong is chosen to be the case because of its uniqueness in the development of its design education. This chapter discusses this issue by reviewing the design curricula in secondary school education and tertiary education. This review provides an overview of how students learn design thinking and problem solving in design education. The problems of the transition from one curriculum to another are highlighted. It is suggested that better communication between the curriculum developers is needed to cultivate a smooth transition so that the students of design can enjoy a better learning experience.

scholarly journals Students learning with interactive virtual math: an exploratory study in the classroom

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sônia Palha
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
School Students ◽  
Dynamic Events ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Scale Experiment ◽  
Further Development

Interactive Virtual Math (IVM) is a visualization tool to support secondary school students’ learning of graphs by dynamic events. In the prototype version students construct a graph and try to improve it themselves and with the feedback of the tool. In a small-scale experiment, which involved four classes at secondary and tertiary education and their mathematics teachers we investigated how the students used the tool in the classroom. In this study we focus on the students learning experience and the results are expected to provide knowledge and directions for further development of the tool. The corpus data consists of self-reported questionnaires and lessons observations. One main finding is that students, at different school levels, find the tool useful to construct or improve graphical representations and it can help to get a better understanding of the subject. The tool features that helped students most were the self-construction of the graphs and to get feedback about their own graph at the end. Other findings are that the students can work independently with the tool and we know more about the tool features that are attractive or need to be improved.

scholarly journals Realignment Course in Mathematics: design of an online valuable experience for students

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice Barana ◽  
Alessandro Bogino ◽  
Michele Fioravera ◽  
Francesco Floris ◽  
Marina Marchisio
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Assessment System ◽  
Automatic Assessment ◽  
User Experience Design ◽  
Design For Learning ◽  
System Data ◽  
Advanced Computing

Supporting students in the transition from secondary school to university is an important action to be taken in order to increase the number of people with tertiary education degrees; it has positive consequences on the citizens’ working perspective and on the national economic growth. To this purpose, in the academic year 2014/2015 the University of Turin started the Project Orient@mente, a platform of self-paced open online courses aimed to guide students in the choice of a scientific university program.  This paper focuses on the design of the Realignment Course in Mathematics, provided by the platform and aimed at the self-paced review and integration of knowledge that students are required to acquire during secondary school. Materials are created and structured according to the User Experience Design for Learning, with the aim of providing a valuable learning experience to students. Contents are delivered through an accessible learning management system integrated with an advanced computing environment and an automatic assessment system. Data from the usage of the activities and from the results of the online tests are analyzed in order to validate the design choices and the coherent structure of the course.

scholarly journals The use of Māori and Pasifika knowledge within the everyday practice of commensality to enrich the learning experience

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Nan Catherine O'Sullivan ◽  
David Hakaraia
Keyword(s):  
Design Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Everyday Practice ◽  
World Views ◽  
Learning Space ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Indigenous Wisdom

Aotearoa, New Zealand, is both a bicultural nation and a multicultural society, so the need to prioritise culture in design pedagogy and practice is not only palpable but well overdue within our creative tertiary institutes. Diversities are acknowledged as highly valuable within higher education, but when they are explored as non-western cultural and creative practices, they are still sidelined as optional, or as extensions to the current teleological pathways carved out within tertiary design curricula and practice. Building on the ‘Indigenous Wisdom’ framework outlined in the emergent design provocation Transition Design, this research introduces how an appreciation of cultural acumen can benefit, enrich, critique, and radicalise current design thinking, process and praxis. This study will discuss both Māori and Pasifika world views and ideologies and illustrate how these can enrich and enable design education. The aim of this paper is to highlight an appreciation for the reciprocity and respect imbued within kaupapa Māori and the Pasifika ideology of ta-vā (time and space) and how these considerations can enhance the discipline when they are purposefully, knowingly and respectfully imbued in design thinking and praxis. This research specifically focuses on the establishment of connections as essential to both the discipline and the teaching and learning experience. To achieve this, this study will introduce commensality, the coming together around a table to break bread and boundaries, and place it within the framework of Transition Design. Having gained an appreciation of Transition Design, Māori and Pasifika world views and ideologies, and commensality, this research will exemplify instances where students have combined these considerations to enhance their design solutions, and also where pedagogy can be used to specifically enhance teaching and learning by enabling an appreciation of cultural identity and social connectivity within the learning space.    How to cite this article:O’SULLIVAN, Nan; HAKARAIA, David. The use of Māori and Pasifika knowledge within the everyday practice of commensality to enrich the learning experience. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South v. 2, n. 2, p. 4-17, Sept. 2018. Available at: http://sotl-south-journal.net/?journal=sotls&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=42&path%5B%5D=31   This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

scholarly journals Insights from a Latent Semantic Analysis of Patterns in Design Expertise: Implications for Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 208
Author(s):  
Hernan Casakin ◽  
Vishal Singh
Keyword(s):  
Latent Semantic Analysis ◽  
Design Education ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Levels Of Detail ◽  
Interdisciplinary Design ◽  
Assessment Approach ◽  
Design Expertise ◽  
Different Levels

Design and design thinking are increasingly being taught across several disciplines—ranging from arts, architecture, and technology and engineering to business schools—where expertise plays a central role. A substantial corpus of literature on research in regard to design expert and design expertise has accumulated in the last decades. However, in spite of its importance for design and design education, the topic has remained largely unframed. A major goal of this study was to carry out an assessment of literature through leading interdisciplinary design journals in order to identify main topics and categorize them into thematic patterns concerned with expertise in design. A structured assessment approach based on Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) was used over 861 abstracts. The emerging thematic patterns associated with design expertise allowed a categorization at different levels of detail, which included 80, 50, 20, and 12 factors analyses, respectively. The major contribution of the study was to offer a structured assessment of key design literature that enabled to gain a clearer and more comprehensive understanding of the thematic patterns in the discussion on design expertise. Implications of the identified key factors for design education are discussed.

scholarly journals APPROACHES IN DESIGN EDUCATION: THE ROLE OF PATTERNS AND SCENARIOS IN THE DESIGN STUDIO

2016 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-21
Author(s):  
Hernan Casakin ◽  
Arjan van Timmeren ◽  
Petra Badke-Schaub
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Design Patterns ◽  
Design Education ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Design Studio ◽  
Design Activity ◽  
Educational Setting ◽  
Educational Approach ◽  
Design Problems ◽  
Functional Perspective

The studio is the educational setting where architectural students dedicate a large part of their study career working individually and in groups. Supporting students with adequate methods to deal with ill-defined problems in the design studio is a major challenge for design education. Whereas different approaches such as using design patterns and developing scenarios are reported to improve the design activity, they were never investigated in the design studio. An empirical investigation was conducted in order to explore whether and how scenarios and patterns can help students in developing a useful knowledge base and enhance their abilities to solve design problems in the design studio. Students were requested to solve a series of design problems using these educational methods, while working individually and as a team. They were asked to produce as many design ideas as possible, while in the team setting were instructed to think aloud. The data assessed is gathered from surveys, problem solving sessions, and interviews. Thus, qualitative and quantitative analyses had to be done to find out about the different impact of the two methods in design. The results showed that as an educational approach, patterns aided in defining problems and analyzing idea solutions, mainly from a technical and functional perspective. Scenarios, on the other hand, were helpful to generate new ideas, and to enhance design creativity. Independently of the pedagogical method used in the design studio, working in teams showed to be central to enrich and enhance many aspects of the design activity. The findings have important implications for intervention programs in the design studio. Key words: design thinking, design studio, design education, educational setting, problem solving session, students teamwork.

ПСИХОЛОГО-ПЕДАГОГИЧЕСКИЕ УСЛОВИЯ СОГЛАСОВАНИЯ ГУМАНИТАРНОГО СТИЛЯ МЫШЛЕНИЯ И ЕСТСТВЕННОНАУЧНОГО ЗНАНИЯ В ОБРАЗОВАТЕЛЬНОМ ПРОЦЕССЕ ВУЗА// Academy Journal No.5(17), 2019/ Chief Editor Susan Belih /OEAPS Inc.(Open European Academy of Public Sciences). Tallinn, Estonia. 09.05.2019: OEAPS Inc., 2019. - pp. 45-53.

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Раиса Николаевна Афонина ◽  
Людмила Константиновна Синцова
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Chief Editor ◽  
Interactive Teaching ◽  
European Academy ◽  
Secondary School Education ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Practice

В статье рассматривается проблема согласования гуманитарного стиля мышления и естественнонаучного знания. Практика показывает, что у студентов, выбравших для обучения гуманитарные специальности, преобладает гуманитарное мышление. Оно сформировано условиями профильного обучения в средней школе и продолжает развиваться на этапе получения высшего образования. Гуманитарный тип мышления характеризуется диалогичностью, вариативностью, креативностью, самостоятельностью в освоении новых знаний, способностью к интеллектуальным изобретениям и экспериментам с неизвестными и неочевидными результатами, к рефлексивности и критичности результатов деятельности. Важнейшими условиями повышения эффективности в освоении содержания естественнонаучных дисциплин студентами-гуманитариями являются учет возможностей и познавательных интересов студентов, использование резервов учебной информации, интерактивных методов обучения.The article deals with the problem of harmonizing the humanitarian style of thinking and natural science knowledge. Practice shows that students who choose humanities to study in humanities have humanitarian thinking that prevails. It is shaped by the profile of secondary school education and continues to evolve at the stage of higher education. The humanitarian type of thinking is characterized by dialogue, variability, creativity, autonomy in the development of new knowledge, the ability to intellectual inventions and experiments with unknown and non-obvious results, to reflexivity and criticality of the results of activities. The most important conditions for increasing the effectiveness in mastering the content of natural science disciplines by students of the humanities are taking into account the capabilities and cognitive interests of students, the use of reserves of educational information, interactive teaching methods.

The analysis

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fariha Azalea
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Direct Observation ◽  
Test Score ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Cognitive Test ◽  
21St Century Skill ◽  
Maximum Angle ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Collaboration And Communication

This article exposes how STEM-based learning is applied in science class to give students meaningful learning experience in the topic of Pascal Law. This study is motivated by the demand of 21st century skill which expect people to have 4C skills; critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and communication. In this study, STEM-based learning is conducted at a private secondary school located in Bandung with 28 students of grade 8 as the subjects. Students are provided a problem related to the application of Pascal Law namely hydraulic bridge. They are challenged to design their own hydraulic bridge which can be lifted with maximum angle but in minimum time. A descriptive study is taken where all the data is obtained through direct observation and students’ interview. Based on cognitive test, there is difference on pre-test and post-test score that resulting in the number of gain. Based on direct observation, none of students just sitting on their seat without activities and all are on collaboration to reach their goal. Students’ interview indicates they enjoy learning process as it is their first experience accomplishing a project and it makes them more understand the concept through the real application. Overall of the study, STEM-based learning through hydraulic bridge project stimulates students to be able to think critically, to be creative, to collaborate, and to communicate.

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