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.

在整个教育企业中，设计思维无处不在，从建筑，工程和时尚中进行。并通过共同核心和下一代科学标准。各个年龄段的学生在全球范围内利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其世界。在线课程将讲师和学生参与的信封从被动到基于项目和积极的学习。地区正在为学生提供平板电脑，以审查数字材料，文档工作，进行测量和合作项目。组织正在探索基于能力的大学和劳动力准备就绪的徽章和认证。最后，教师正在用“家用”设计思维课程“淹没”在线空间。这些努力虽然值得称赞，但通常是在本地或孤立的，可以从与学习模型保持一致的商业产品中受益； Inter-Connects技术；提供标准化格式来交换信息；连接应用程序以促进设计过程；并有系统地奖励信用。拟议的MyDesign应用程序旨在通过可销售的产品来解决这些变革性更改，该产品为设计提供了移动平台，同时利用其他相关第三方生产力应用程序的力量。 MyDesign的应用程序家族为学生，讲师，设计竞赛，劳动力经理和设计专业人员的技术评委提供了一个常见的平台和界面“外观”。这些应用程序分为一系列屏幕，指导用户通过设计思维的十二个步骤。 任何人都可以随时使用移动平台，同时扩大学生，老师和专业人员在设计过程中的参与。应用程序家庭适用于各种各样的年级，包括K-12，社区学院，本科和研究生院以及工程，建筑，时装设计和图形设计等专业。这些应用程序使用一个编码过程，该过程在整个设计过程中概述了用户信息，活动和进度。 编码过程支持一个无缝的信用识别系统，该系统在课程，课程，比赛，游戏成就水平，徽章，证书和凭证上削减。