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Barcelona, June 3rd, 2017
Helping teachers to think about their design problem: a pilot study to stimulate
design thinking
Hernández-Leo D, Agostinho S, Beardsley M, Bennett S, Lockyer L. Helping teachers to think about their design problem: a pilot study to stimulate design thinking. Paper
presented at: 9th annual International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies EDULEARN17; 2017 July 3-5; Barcelona, Spain, pp. 5681-5690.
Open access: http://hdl.handle.net/10230/32247
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Learning design / Design for learning
n Supporting teachers in defining the best possible conditions for students’ to learn (representations, sharing, interpretation for software systems)
— Methodologies, languages, tools…
— Potential for sharing
• Complex process, many factors to consider • Observed that teachers work as designers, even if they
don’t consider their work in terms of design
Better support to educators’ design thinking process
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http://ilde.upf.edu/about/
Integrated Environment for Learning Design
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(Co-)author Implement (instantiate + deploy)
Explore /Investigate / (Co-)conceptualize
Evaluate
Produce a detailed, formal and reusable defini4on of a learning design
Apply an authored learning design using a specific VLE, a par4cular group of students and set of tools
Work on/with ideas for design, e.g. crea4on of representa4ons of design elements and their interconnec4ons, understanding of the context and expected users
Learning design lifecycle
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Learning design tools in ILDE
- Hernández-Leo, D., Asensio-Pérez, J.I., Derntl, M., Prieto, L.P., Chacón, J., (2014) ILDE: Community Environment for Conceptualizing, Authoring and Deploying Learning Activities. In: Proceedings of 9th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2014, Graz, Austria, pp. 490-493.
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Need of support for “problem definition”
• Support to the initial phase of identifying a design problem
• Problem Generation Tool (20 questions, 3 foci)
Understand the nature of the design problem and your goals (Q1-7):
Sample questions: What kind of problem is this? Why is this design being done? What initial ideas do you have?
Map your context (Q8-15):
Sample questions: Who are the students? How will the course be taught? Who will teach in this course?
Plan your design approach (Q16-20):
Sample questions: What do you need to produce? What preparation do you have to do? What is your initial plan or steps you will follow for your design process?
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Problem Generation Tool in ILDE
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Pilot preliminary evaluation
• Eight participants, already familiar with ILDE
• Between 1-5 years of teaching experience
• A morning workshop:
• Introduction to the workshop
• Thinking about a scenario
• Thinking “openly” about the problem they aim to solve in their scenario (documenting in ILDE – open conceptualization)
• Thinking using the Problem Generation Tool in ILDE
• Data: Artifacts produced in ILDE, responses to a questionnaire, observations
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Results
• Findings provided as descriptive key themes
• Marta elaborated on the design problem by focusing on the solution
• Kenet’s design problem description become somewhat clearer but many questions were not answered
• Lara elaborated on the design problem, presented a solution, and suggested ideas to evaluate the solution
• Sia provided little elaboration of the design problem
• Antonio elaborated on her design problem by providing student details and ideas for a solution
• Cross analysis identifying the most useful questions, those not clearly understood, additional questions suggested by participants
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Summary of results
• Participants found the Problem Generation Tool helpful
• The level of perceived usefulness by question varied across participants, while a few questions were not sufficiently clear and need to be revised.
• Overall, there was evident elaboration of the participants’ design problems thus suggesting design thinking was stimulated and identification of the design problems scaffolded.
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Conclusions
• Educators’ design thinking: Support to generating the design problem
• Problem Generation Tool, in the context of ILDE (Integrated Learning Design Environment)
• Preliminary study,
• Receptiveness to use this form of design support
• Deeper investigations needed
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davinia.hernandez-‐[email protected]
Hernández-Leo D, Agostinho S, Beardsley M, Bennett S, Lockyer L. Helping teachers to think about their design problem: a pilot study to stimulate design thinking. Paper presented at: 9th annual International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies EDULEARN17; 2017 July 3-5; Barcelona, Spain, pp. 5681-5690.