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Applying E‐portfolios for Supporting Reflective Behaviors in Design Education – the case of metalwork design
Yung‐Ping Chou, Shih‐Fang Huang, Ming‐Ying YangDepartment of Industrial Design,
National United University, Miaoli, 360, Taiwan
Motivation
1. Reflection is essential for designers. But it is implicit and hard to identify in a learning process.
2. Design education needs apprenticeship, which cannot be sufficiently provided in many design institutions nowadays (in Taiwan).
Information tools may help?
Course: Introduction to Metalwork DesignElective, 14 sophomores, 18 weeks
ConceptualizationVisualization
Implantation
Ornament design has a simplified design process that still captures the main elements.
the outcome
Concept of a designer’s e‐portfolio
Designers have the tradition of keeping their portfolios through their career.
Opportunity
Designer’s port.time
Course 1Course 2
Course 3
Looking for jobs
peer interaction
Student Port.
Album 2Album 2Album 2
Course Port. Album 1
Designer’s e‐portfolio
Student Port.Student Port.
Student Port.Student Port.
The System
Generally regarded functions of reflective e‐portfolios:
1. storage for multimedia artifacts,
2. UI for writing and reviewing,
3. teacher‐student and peer interactions,
4. group communicationtool,
5. course management, and 6. multi‐level access control.
Without the availability of a platform, we combine some online services to form a minimalist system.
Flickr
a forum
YouTube
Fast reviewing for reflection, assessment & apprenticing
annotation
discussion
back
Research Methods
1. Qualitative: coding, interviewing & observation
2. Quantitative: questionnaire
Kember et al., 2000
reflect.reports
opencoding
axialcoding
selectivecoding
reflections
contentprocesspremise
Results
1. In order of importance, key functions of an e‐portfolio system for design education are: (1) review and reflection; (2) interactions with privacy; (3) social interactions, in a competitivesense(?)
What we have learned
2. The e‐portfolio system did help learning in each phase of the process. The teacher was capable of sensing learning difficulties timely and provided accurate guidance.
What we have learned
curves surfacetexture
3D objects
Idea
expression
sketching
student
teacher
subject
3. The teacher may evaluate students based on their design ideation, other than their final works. In design education, seeing through the whole design processes carried out by students is important but rather difficult.
What we have learned
A final work showing good expression skills
back
A final work with not so good skills but excelling in design concept
Designers are thinkersmore than crafts persons.
4. Questionnaire survey indicates that the students recognize the importance of reflection in design more after the course.
Problems and Challenges:
1. Implanting e‐portfolios for a single course adds loads on the students. Nowadays students are slow in writing, whereas reflections should be written up.
2. Keeping an e‐portfolio is a lifelong business. Design students should form such a habit. However, promoting e‐portfolio to teachers and courses needs a smart institutional strategy.
E‐portfolio is lifelongtime
Course 1Course 2
Course 3
Conclusions‐ e‐portfolio & reflection
1. E‐portfolio makes assessing process, other than outcome, possible.
2. E‐portfolio enhances student‐teacher interactions, facilitating more exploratory courses.
3. E‐portfolio also enhances social interactions between the students.
All these add up to enhancing reflection.
Thank you!Any Questions?
Possible Topics for the Future:1. Gender difference in reflective education2. In more complex courses of product
design, how does reflection help students in every stages of the design process?
3. Is the social interaction among design students different from other students?
4. Interface design for an e‐portfolio system for designers
2 Student portfolios, with permissions from:芷宣—http://www.flickr.com/photos/25152775@N02/sets/佩璇—http://www.flickr.com/photos/blest1224
Movies of drawing skill demonstrations are published at: http://tw.youtube.com/user/sifan626
The Course Portfolio:http://groups.google.com.tw/group/sifan‐metalwork?hl=zh‐TW