I-Corps: Design Thinking Mobile APPs for Instructors and Students

I-Corps：面向教师和学生的设计思维移动应用程序

• 批准号: 1505216
• 负责人: Leigh Abts
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of Maryland, College Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-12-15 至 2015-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1505216&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Design; Thinking; Mobile; APPs

Design Thinking is ubiquitously taught and practiced across the Education Enterprise, ranging from architecture, engineering, and fashion; and through the Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards. Mobile devices and their APPs are utilized around the globe by students of all ages to send messages, record daily activities, and document their world. Online courses are pushing the envelope of instructor and student engagement from passive to project-based and active learning. Districts are providing Tablets to their students to review digital material, document work, make measurements, and team-up on projects. Organizations are exploring competency-based Badging and Certification for College and Workforce Readiness. And finally, teachers are 'flooding' the online space with 'home brewed' Design Thinking lesson plans. These efforts, while commendable, are often applied locally or in isolation, and could benefit from a commercial product that aligns learning models; inter-connects technologies; provides standardized formats to exchange information; interlinks APPs to facilitate the Design process; and systematically awards credit.The proposed MyDesign family of apps seeks to address these transformational changes through a marketable product that provides a mobile platform for design while harnessing the power of other relevant 3rd party productivity apps. The MyDesign family of apps offers a common platform and interface 'look' for students, instructors, technical judges of design competitions, workforce managers, and design professionals. The apps are organized into a series of screens, guiding users through each of the twelve steps of design thinking. The mobile platform can be used anytime, anyplace, by anyone while broadening the participation of students, teachers, and professionals in the design process. The family of apps applies across a wide variety of grade levels including K-12, community colleges, undergraduate and graduate school as well as professions such as engineering, architecture, fashion design, and graphic design. The apps use a coding process that concisely captures user information, activities and progress as they proceed through the design process. The coding process supports a seamless credit recognition system that cuts across lessons, courses, competitions, game achievement levels, badges, certificates, and credentials.

设计思维在整个教育企业中无处不在，涉及建筑、工程和时尚等领域。并通过共同核心和下一代科学标准。全球各个年龄段的学生都在使用移动设备及其应用程序来发送消息、记录日常活动并记录他们的世界。在线课程正在推动教师和学生的参与度从被动学习转向基于项目的主动学习。各学区为学生提供平板电脑，用于查看数字材料、记录工作、进行测量以及在项目上进行团队合作。组织正在探索基于能力的徽章和认证，以实现大学和劳动力准备情况。最后，教师们正在网上空间中“充斥”“自制”的设计思维课程计划。这些努力虽然值得称赞，但通常在本地或单独应用，并且可以从调整学习模型的商业产品中受益；互连技术；提供标准化格式来交换信息；互连应用程序以促进设计过程；拟议的 MyDesign 应用程序系列旨在通过一款适销对路的产品来解决这些变革，该产品提供移动设计平台，同时利用其他相关第三方生产力应用程序的功能。 MyDesign 系列应用程序为学生、教师、设计竞赛的技术评委、劳动力经理和设计专业人士提供了一个通用平台和界面“外观”。这些应用程序被组织成一系列屏幕，引导用户完成设计思维的十二个步骤中的每一个步骤。 该移动平台可供任何人随时随地使用，同时扩大学生、教师和专业人士在设计过程中的参与。该应用程序系列适用于各种年级，包括 K-12、社区学院、本科生和研究生院以及工程、建筑、时装设计和平面设计等专业。这些应用程序使用编码过程，在用户进行设计过程时简洁地捕获用户信息、活动和进度。 编码过程支持无缝的学分识别系统，该系统涵盖课程、课程、竞赛、游戏成绩水平、徽章、证书和凭证。