Design Thinking

Catalog description

Designing experiences that focus on how people and organizations grow and thrive is a systematic and thoughtful process. This course is concerned with helping students think about and engage in design thinking as a way to engage learners and build innovative learning tools, products and environments. It practically focuses on using design thinking to plan prototype and build learning experiences. Globally, learners and audiences for systematized educational offerings have changed markedly since the rise of the internet and World Wide Web. In every country, today's learners and audiences are defined by a deep hunger for information and an insatiable desire for knowledge. In developed economies, an openness to messaging from many different sources define daily existence. Educators in all settings must be agile and innovative in order to maintain engagement and build audience interest via meaningful curriculum as well as "classroom" offerings. In this course, we explore Design Thinking as a catalyst for reshaping learning experiences toward more innovation. We examine ways of developing novel learning designs to solve real-world living and learning problems to meet the needs of diverse learners.