Design Thinking and Educational Innovation

• • Introduction: Educational Innovation
  • Contemporary innovations in learning and teaching: Engaging technologies & beyond technology
  • What is design thinking?
  • Empathise: Your data, your users
  • Define: Refine and define the innovation
  • Ideate: Generating & refining ideas
  • Prototype: What's a learning design prototype? Build the brief, Create the prototype
  • Test: testing and evaluating the innovation
  • What next? Informing teaching and learning
  • Dissemination of innovations

In order to enrol in this subject, you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:

Core

• CUR-EDH-GCE-2020

Special requirements

No special requirements

As approaches to learning and teaching evolve, innovation is now a necessary condition for teaching and the design and delivery of learning. This subject begins with an exploration of issues in contemporary research and theories of learning and teaching. It then critically examines “innovation” in curriculum and learning design, physical and online learning spaces and educational technologies. Learners will develop an innovation by employing design thinking principles and processes to enhance their students’ learning experience and/or outcomes in their own teaching practice. This subject is designed to develop outcomes that can be used as evidence of innovation in one’s teaching.

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• Understand and explore: Report (30%)
• Explore: Design and prototype design brief (30%)
• Materialise: Presentation and report (40%)