Design Studio

Ining Tracy ChaoSandra RogersTerri Bateman

ETUG Spring workshop 2014

Challenges

• Technology How-To’s• Teaching and Learning Workshops• Who should attend?• New ideas? Sustainable innovation?

Studio Space

IDEO Design Thinking

• brings together what is desirable from a human point of view with what is technologically feasible and economically viable.

• a deeply human process that taps into abilities we all have but get overlooked by more conventional problem-solving practices.

Source: http://www.ideo.com/about/

• Learning Design• Faculty Development• Collaborative Development

Image source: http://www.designthinkingforeducators.com/

Technology

Process

Image source: http://www.designthinkingforeducators.com/design-thinking/

Two Pilot Workshops

1. Design Studio: Learning and Technology– Feb 10 – Mar 22:

six weeks online– School of

Education and Technology, RRU

– Mentor network

Lessons Learned - Planning

• Strong Sponsor buy-in = addressing “real” needs

• Be very clear about the purpose and goal (e.g. Design Studio: Learning and Technology)

• Have enough facilitators (1:4 ratio in SET vs. 1:70 ratio in Tianjin)

• Ongoing mentorship is important

Lessons Learned - Facilitation• Balance between achieving the goal

and being completely open• Give plenty of space for participants

to experiment• Facilitator becomes a member of the

team during Stage 4: experimentation• Invite sponsor to be part of the

workshop (e.g. SET hosted two synchronous sessions)

Measuring Success

• Evidence of sustainable innovations• Participant feedback

Feedback

The Design Thinking Model as a framework for the course helped me to explore my challenge, articulate what I needed, experiment with some ideas and resources, and get a good start on a product.

...gave me the motivation to work through something I have been thinking about for a while.

An excellent learning opportunity!

Appreciated having choice about what to focus on.

It looks as though there were some very positive outcomes from the session and we hope it sparked an interest for the participants to explore more tools that they can use in their course delivery. from program head

Your challenge?

Think about…..

Dreams/things I wish would exist --->> How might we…..

Gripes/things that could be better --->> How might we….

Resources

Design Studio: Learning & Technology course - http://open.royalroads.ca/

IDEO - http://www.ideo.com/

Design Thinking for Educators - http://www.designthinkingforeducators.com/

d.school methods - http://dschool.stanford.edu/use-our-methods/