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Gibbs, William J. – Design and Technology Education, 2022
The ambiguous identity of the digital media field, the ubiquity of media, and rapid and persistent technological change and innovation pose inimitable challenges for academic programs in digital media. Digitization of media is an underlying impetus for today's rapid innovation that compels related academic programs in higher education to…
Descriptors: Design, Thinking Skills, Epistemology, Information Technology
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Santulli, Carlo; Rognoli, Valentina – Design and Technology Education, 2020
Materials are primary elements in the process of design and are gaining more and more attention in design education. The present work illustrates the practice of material tinkering, concentrating on its effects on design education, as regards the upcycling of waste into material demonstrators, deemed to assess their possibility to evolve into…
Descriptors: Design, Teaching Methods, Wastes, Recycling
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Börekçi, Naz A. G. Z. – Design and Technology Education, 2018
This paper investigates the effectiveness of the morphological chart method in design divergence. The literature presents the morphological chart as an engineering design method that does not particularly aim novelty, but instead gathers possible means for fulfilling the independently decomposed sub-functions of a product. On the other hand,…
Descriptors: Design, Computer Software, Engineering, Teaching Methods
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Gray, Colin M. – Design and Technology Education, 2021
Our undergraduate UX program at Purdue University launched in 2016 as one of the first UX-focused undergraduate degree programs in the United States, intentionally designed to support the unique characteristics of a residential, research-intensive, land-grant institution. We designed multiple overlapping studio experiences that formed multiple…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Design, Undergraduate Students, Online Courses
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Reddy, Gudur Raghavendra; McDonagh, Deana; Harris, Maurita T.; Rogers, Wendy A. – Design and Technology Education, 2021
There is an increasing interest in design and creative thinking processes in the Sciences, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) and health education disciplines. Many new degree programs are integrating design thinking into their syllabi, with the intention of bringing creative problem-solving methods to these disciplines. In reality,…
Descriptors: Design, Thinking Skills, Creative Thinking, Problem Solving
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Stables, Kay – Design and Technology Education, 2014
This article presents the concept of "designerly wellbeing," identifying the value for individuals and society of the development of the design capability inherent in all humans. The concept builds on ideas more generally of capability, well-being and democratic design and is characterised as the satisfaction, pride, confidence and…
Descriptors: Design, Well Being, Teaching Methods, Preferences