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Positioning Industrial Design Students to Operate at the "Fuzzy Front End": Investigating a New Arena of University Design Education
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Wormald, Paul W. – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2011
This paper describes pedagogic research to instigate, support and understand a significant change in the education of undergraduate industrial design students. Design educators at Loughborough University, UK, have proposed that it will be critical for future industrial designers to learn new knowledge and abilities which will enable them to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Student Projects, Design
Developing Physics Concepts through Hands-On Problem Solving: A Perspective on a Technological Project Design
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Hong, Jon-Chao; Chen, Mei-Yung; Wong, Ashley; Hsu, Tsui-Fang; Peng, Chih-Chi – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2012
In a contest featuring hands-on projects, college students were required to design a simple crawling worm using planning, self-monitoring and self-evaluation processes to solve contradictive problems. To enhance the efficiency of problem solving, one needs to practice meta-cognition based on an application of related scientific concepts. The…
Descriptors: Physics, Competition, Scientific Concepts, Hands on Science
An Exploratory Study on the Perspectives of Prospective Computer Teachers following Project-Based Learning
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Karaman, Selcuk; Celik, Suat – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2008
This study investigates perceptions of 29 prospective teachers about a course based on Project-Based Learning (PBL) approach. The course, "Authoring Languages in PC Environment (B-320)" lasted in 14 weeks in fall semester of 2004-2005. In this course each prospective teacher carried out a project that requires designing and developing courseware…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Programming Languages, Time Management, Active Learning
Sparking Self-Sustained Learning: Report on a Design Experiment to Build Technological Fluency and Bridge Divides
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Barron, Brigid; Martin, Caitlin Kennedy; Roberts, Eric – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2007
In this article we report assessment results from two studies in an ongoing design experiment intended to provide a single school system with a sequence of secondary school level (ages 14-18) computer technology courses. In our first study, we share data on students' learning as a function of the required introductory course and their pre-course…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Computer Literacy, Secondary School Students
The Grounding of a Discipline: Cognition and Instruction in Technology Education
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De Miranda, Michael A. – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2004
Technology education has long struggled to establish itself as an equal partner in general education and often struggled to gain recognition for the value of its instruction. Frequently technology educators tout the effectiveness of their programs based on anecdotal evidence gathered from their classroom experiences on how their instructional…
Descriptors: Expertise, Evidence, Technology Education, Teaching Methods
Mobile Dwelling Unit Developed by a Group of Mechanical Engineering Design Students
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Novak, Marina; Pozun, Matjaz; Dolsak, Bojan; Pocivavsek, Tadej – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2004
The increasing number of homeless people is one of the most burning problems of nowadays world. Society has to find the way to fight against it and provide help to those people that have no place to stay. For short-term interventions, the application of the mobile dwelling units seems to be the only possible solution. However, existing mobile…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Housing, Engineering, Intervention