scholarly journals Agile Entrepreneurship Innovation in Fashion Design Thinking During COVID-19 and Beyond: Reimagine Education to Create Skills for Fashion Business

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Vasiliki A. Basdekidou
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
University Education ◽  
Fashion Design ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
On Line ◽  
Green Entrepreneurship ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
On Line Learning

Purpose: The COVID-19 crisis had a severe impact on University education (on-line learning, off-campus examinations). In addition, the COVID-19 pandemic raises questions about the quality of education and training in a number of disciplines, like fashion design, where social entrepreneurship opportunities and in-situ functionalities are essential for a quality curriculum. Hence, to remain relevant and innovative, fashion design thinking will need to reimagine education in order to create skills for e-entrepreneurship and prepare fashion entrepreneurs for e-business. Therefore, new concepts for fashion design thinking for innovation and e-entrepreneurship have to introduce in an e-classrooms curriculum. Methodology: This study employed the use of questionnaires to collect quantitative data and structured interviews to compile qualitative data (opinions) of two main groups of fashion design professionals: (a) clothing merchants and manufacturers, (b) fashion design green entrepreneurs. In particular, linear regression used to analyze the quantitative data (SPSS functionality) and data analytics software (QSR NVivo) adopted to encode the answers from the interviews. Findings: Findings obtained in this study show that –with the admission of agile entrepreneurship superiority and functional solution in crises like COVID-19- the green entrepreneurs are better positioning are better prepared to withstand the current COVID-19 or future crisis. Hence the requirement to integrate green entrepreneurship courses into the fashion d esign curriculum will be proposed to create innovation and value in fashion design thinking. Originality and value: This study inserts itself in a multidisciplinary field, mainly composed of four disciplinary areas: “fashion design thinking and education”, “digital transformation”, ”green entrepreneurship”, and “work-from-home entrepreneurship”. The introduction of the new term “Agile entrepreneurship” as a new disciplinary concept in fashion design curriculum is also crucial.  Research limitations: The main limitation of this study is related to the definition of “Agile entrepreneurship” itself in COVID-19 and beyond work-from-home era, as bibliography still diverges on this subject.

scholarly journals Artisanal Fashion Design: Entrepreneurs on Thinking, Process, and Decision Making

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Ott
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Fashion Design ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Fashion Industry ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Manufacturing Enterprises ◽  
Thinking Process ◽  
Fashion Designers

This thesis examines the ways in which fashion designers think about themselves, the design process, and the fashion industry. Recent interest in design thinking has brought decision making to the forefront in an effort to resolve conflicts between creative individuals and managers during the design process. Within the fashion design literature there are studies of processes in large fashion manufacturing enterprises but very little has focused on small-scale fashion design entrepreneurs. In this inductive, qualitative study, I use grounded theory as the methodology in the analysis of semi-structured interviews of twelve Canadian fashion design entrepreneurs. The findings explore their perceptions of their identity as designers, their perceptions of design process, and their relationship to their business. This research has developed the concept of “artisanal fashion design” as a distinct subset of design for further study and for consideration by organizations, the fashion industry, and educators.

scholarly journals A lane-changing behavioral preferences learning agent with its applications

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 349-374
Author(s):  
Wang Jian ◽  
Cai Baigen ◽  
Liu Jiang ◽  
Shangguan Wei
Keyword(s):  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Bdi Agents ◽  
Lane Changing ◽  
Learning Agent ◽  
Bdi Agent ◽  
Behavioral Preferences ◽  
On Line ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
On Line Learning ◽  
Real Time Optimization

Traditional lane-changing (LC) behavioral researches usually focus on the driver?s cognitive performance which includes the driver?s psychological and behavioral habit characteristics, rarely involving the affection of expert driver?s comprehensive behavioral preferences, such as: safety and comfort performance in LC process. Towards the free LC process, a novel LC safety and comfort degree index is proposed in this paper, as well as, the novel definition of LC driving behavioral preferences is described in detail. Taking advantage of interactive evolutionary computing (IEC) and real-time optimization (RTO) metrics, a kind of LC behavioral preferences on-line learning agent extending traditional Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) structure is explicitly proposed, which can perform behavioral preferences learning activities in the LC process. In addition, driving behavioral preferences learning strategies are introduced which can gradually grasp essentials in driver?s subjective judgments in decision-making of the LC process and make the LC process more safety and scientific. Specifically, a conceptual model of the agent, driving behavioral preferences learning-BDI (DpL-BDI) agent is introduced, along with corresponding functional modules to grasp driving behavioral preferences. Furthermore, colored Petri nets are used to realize the components and scheduler of the DpL-BDI agents. In the end, to compare with the traditional LC parameters? learning methods (such as: the least squares methods and Genetic Algorithms), a kind of LC problems is suggested to case studies, testing and verifying the validity of the contribution.

scholarly journals Constructivism and contextual based learning in improving indonesian language learning outcomes in elementary school using online learning techniques in the middle of the covid 19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 304
Author(s):  
Edy Sulistiyono ◽  
Missriani Missriani ◽  
Yessi Fitriani
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Learning Spaces ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
First Semester ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
On Line ◽  
On Line Learning

This study aims to determine the success of implementing constructivism-based and contextual learning systems in Indonesian language learning, in particular, the five-grade first semester at SD Negeri 44 OKU with on-line learning techniques in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. This study uses qualitative research methods. The data collection techniques used were participant observation, structured interviews, and documentation. The results showed several recommendations for distance learning designs by viewing teaching as a process of interaction between learning actors. Interactions that are mediated by this technology need to be carefully designed and implemented based on the needs of students. Apart from what has been shared here, the spaces for innovation are still very wide open in the design and implementation of distance learning, with learning spaces to continuously improve teaching. The vast space for innovation and learning is what frees educators to continue to observe, ask, try, find, and reflect on what forms of distance learning are most appropriate to the context of their students.

scholarly journals Artisanal Fashion Design: Entrepreneurs on Thinking, Process, and Decision Making

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Ott
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Fashion Design ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Fashion Industry ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Manufacturing Enterprises ◽  
Thinking Process ◽  
Fashion Designers

This thesis examines the ways in which fashion designers think about themselves, the design process, and the fashion industry. Recent interest in design thinking has brought decision making to the forefront in an effort to resolve conflicts between creative individuals and managers during the design process. Within the fashion design literature there are studies of processes in large fashion manufacturing enterprises but very little has focused on small-scale fashion design entrepreneurs. In this inductive, qualitative study, I use grounded theory as the methodology in the analysis of semi-structured interviews of twelve Canadian fashion design entrepreneurs. The findings explore their perceptions of their identity as designers, their perceptions of design process, and their relationship to their business. This research has developed the concept of “artisanal fashion design” as a distinct subset of design for further study and for consideration by organizations, the fashion industry, and educators.

scholarly journals Interpretations of Design Thinking Across a Large Organization

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3929-3938
Author(s):  
Martyna Kosmala ◽  
Floris van der Marel ◽  
Tua Björklund
Keyword(s):  
Design Thinking ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Large Organization ◽  
Organizational Contexts ◽  
Continuous Scale ◽  
Embedded Design ◽  
Uniform Definition ◽  
Definition Of

AbstractDesign thinking has a prominent role as established corporations ramp up innovation efforts focusing on user needs. Current literature provides a plethora of definitions for design thinking with variations in tools, methods and cultures. This study aims to identify differences in perception and maturity of design thinking across different contexts within a large corporation. The results are based on a thematic analysis of nine semi-structured interviews with industrial and user experience designers in the case company, operating in different countries and three different organizational contexts: lone designers of a region, unit-embedded design team managers and global-level design managers. The results echo the literature in finding no uniform definition of design thinking. Instead, it was seen as a continuous scale of practices, cognitive approaches and mindsets aiming for stronger user-centrism in the organization. Practices and maturity varied between contexts, indicating that to strengthen the role of design in an organization, a deep understanding of the context is crucial for a successful implementation.

Patterns of Implicit Learning Below the Level of Conscious Knowledge

2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliana Yordanova ◽  
Rolf Verleger ◽  
Ullrich Wagner ◽  
Vasil Kolev
Keyword(s):  
Implicit Learning ◽  
Explicit Knowledge ◽  
Implicit Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Generation ◽  
Sleep Stages ◽  
Implicit Processing ◽  
Implicit Processes ◽  
Late Night ◽  
On Line ◽  
On Line Learning

The objective of the present study was to evaluate patterns of implicit processing in a task where the acquisition of explicit and implicit knowledge occurs simultaneously. The number reduction task (NRT) was used as having two levels of organization, overt and covert, where the covert level of processing is associated with implicit associative and implicit procedural learning. One aim was to compare these two types of implicit processes in the NRT when sleep was or was not introduced between initial formation of task representations and subsequent NRT processing. To assess the effects of different sleep stages, two sleep groups (early- and late-night groups) were used where initial training of the task was separated from subsequent retest by 3 h full of predominantly slow wave sleep (SWS) or rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. In two no-sleep groups, no interval was introduced between initial and subsequent NRT performance. A second aim was to evaluate the interaction between procedural and associative implicit learning in the NRT. Implicit associative learning was measured by the difference between the speed of responses that could or could not be predicted by the covert abstract regularity of the task. Implicit procedural on-line learning was measured by the practice-based increased speed of performance with time on task. Major results indicated that late-night sleep produced a substantial facilitation of implicit associations without modifying individual ability for explicit knowledge generation or for procedural on-line learning. This was evidenced by the higher rate of subjects who gained implicit knowledge of abstract task structure in the late-night group relative to the early-night and no-sleep groups. Independently of sleep, gain of implicit associative knowledge was accompanied by a relative slowing of responses to unpredictable items suggesting reciprocal interactions between associative and motor procedural processes within the implicit system. These observations provide evidence for the separability and interactions of different patterns of processing within implicit memory.

WORK-BASED LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION: EXPERIENCE AND CHALLENGES OF LEARNERS, WORKPLACES AND INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Roosipõld ◽  
Krista Loogma ◽  
Mare Kurvits ◽  
Kristina Murtazin
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
University Education ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Constructivist Learning Theory ◽  
Education Experience ◽  
Restaurant Management ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University ◽  
Social Constructivist Learning

In recent years, providing higher education in the form of work-based learning has become more important in the higher education (HE) policy and practice almost in all EU countries. Work-based learning (WBL) in HE should support the development of competences of self-guided learners and adjust the university education better to the needs of the workplace. The study is based on two pilot projects of WBL in HE in Estonia: Tourism and Restaurant Management professional HE programme and the master’s programme in Business Information Technology. The model of integrative pedagogy, based on the social-constructivist learning theory, is taken as a theoretical foundation for the study. A qualitative study based on semi-structured interviews with the target groups. The data analysis used a horizontal analysis to find cross-cutting themes and identify patterns of actions and connections. It appears, that the challenge for HE is to create better cooperation among stakeholders; the challenge for workplaces is connected with better involvement of students; the challenge for students is to take more initiative and responsibility in communication with workplaces.

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