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地教授和实践，从建筑，工程和时尚;并通过共同核心和下一代科学标准。移动的设备及其应用程序在地球仪上被各个年龄段的学生用来发送消息、记录日常活动和记录他们的世界。在线课程正在推动教师和学生的参与从被动到基于项目和主动学习的信封。地区正在为学生提供平板电脑，以审查数字材料，文件工作，进行测量，并在项目上进行团队合作。各组织正在探索基于能力的大学和劳动力准备徽章和认证。最后，老师们用“自制”的设计思维课程计划“淹没”了在线空间。这些努力虽然值得赞扬，但往往是在当地或孤立地应用，可以受益于一种商业产品，这种产品可以调整学习模式;将技术相互连接;提供标准化格式来交换信息;将应用程序相互连接以促进设计过程;拟议的MyDesign系列应用程序旨在通过一个可销售的产品来解决这些转型性变化，该产品提供了一个移动的平台，设计，同时利用其他相关的第三方生产力应用程序的力量。 MyDesign系列应用程序为学生、教师、设计竞赛的技术评委、劳动力管理人员和设计专业人员提供了一个通用的平台和界面“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12个步骤中的每一个。 这个移动的平台可以随时随地被任何人使用，同时扩大了学生、教师和专业人士在设计过程中的参与。该系列应用程序适用于各种年级，包括K-12，社区学院，本科和研究生院以及工程，建筑，时装设计和平面设计等专业。这些应用程序使用编码过程，在设计过程中简洁地捕获用户信息，活动和进度。 编码过程支持无缝的信用识别系统，该系统跨越课程，课程，比赛，游戏成绩级别，徽章，证书和凭据。