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Miroslava Petrova; Claas Kuhnen – Design and Technology Education, 2025
Integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the design process is a growing area of research interest. Three years after its public launch in 2022, AI has already established itself as the most disruptive tool revolutionizing how designers conceptualize, iterate and innovate. As AI technologies continue to evolve, it is pertinent that design…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software, International Cooperation, Institutional Cooperation
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Niiranen, Sonja; Ikonen, Pasi; Rissanen, Timo; Rasinen, Aki – Design and Technology Education, 2020
The approaches of learning by doing and making have always been inherent components of Finnish craft and technology education. Craft is a practical subject that involves many hands-on activities during which students actively practice experimentation, investigation, invention, problem-solving and designing skills. The same ideology is utilised in…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries
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Bang, Anne Louise; Friis, Silje Alberthe Kamille; Gelting, Anne Katrine Gøtzsche – Design and Technology Education, 2015
This paper set out to investigate "how design students learn from visualising theory in design education." The exploration rests on the assumption that the application of tools and techniques from design practice supports design students with an entrance to the theoretical part of the field. The paper is based on teaching experiences…
Descriptors: Design, Visualization, Teaching Methods, Feedback (Response)
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Tessier, Virginie; Aubry-Boyer, Marie-Pier – Design and Technology Education, 2021
Critique in design education is redefining itself, but its primary aim still focuses on offering and receiving feedback on workshop projects. The global pandemic has forced teachers to adapt their methods for online workshops. The following paper questions how design critique has changed teaching and learning experiences, focusing on the…
Descriptors: Criticism, Design, Workshops, Feedback (Response)
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Schaeffer, Jennie Andersson; Palmgren, Marianne – Design and Technology Education, 2017
In information design education, we strive to find methods that provide students with opportunities to explore different ways of learning and designing. We seek to support development of contextual competences that will be helpful in navigating an unknown future of design in society. A challenge in today's design education is to formulate and use…
Descriptors: Novices, Design, Teaching Methods, Context Effect
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Thorsteinsson, Gisli; Kikkull, Andry – Design and Technology Education, 2019
This article examines the possibility of supporting craft education by incorporating knowledge students have gained via science lessons: such knowledge largely refers to the mathematics and physics taught in Estonian comprehensive schools. Results were gleaned from interviews with craft teachers in Estonia, in order to establish their attitudes to…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Handicrafts, Science Instruction, Mathematics Instruction