Design Thinking for Educators
EURECA-PRO Lifelong Learning Academy - Online Course | Starting: 24/02/2025
University involved: Universidad de León
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Course Type:
Seminar & Workshops
Number of places:
Maximum 80 places
Starting date:
24/02/2025
Ending date:
29/03/2025
Targeted audience: Academic staff (Teachers of K-12, university teachers and teacher trainers)
Recognition of credits: 2 ECTS/60 hours
Place of delivery: Online | Via designated ZOOM link: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/6157025857
Objectives:
- To introduce teachers to Design Thinking methodology and its potential for educational settings
- To develop teachers’ abilities to solve complex problems in an innovative and collaborative way
- To foster teachers’ creativity, empathy and problem-solving skills
- To familiarize teachers with quantitative and quality data collection methods
- To develop teachers’ experimental mindset.
Competencies:
- Creative problem-solving: Ability to approach educational challenges with innovative solutions through design thinking methodology.
- Empathy to understand and respond to the needs and perspectives of students, peers, and stakeholders in educational settings.
- Collaboration to work collaboratively in diverse teams to co-create impactful learning experiences.
- Reflective Thinking to collect, analyze, and use data to identify challenges and assess outcomes.
- Adaptability to refine ideas based on feedback and testing outcomes.
Learning Outcomes:
By the end of the course, teachers will be able to:
- Articulate the principles and stages of design thinking with their teaching practices
- Identify real world problems to focus on and prepare their students to use data-collection techniques to do research
- Encourage students to generate ideas and prototype solutions
- Design and refine innovative projects for classroom integration
- Document and evaluate the design thinking processes implemented for future improvement
Program:
- Our starting point: Our design thinking competences
- What it Design Thinking?
- Design- thinking in the classroom: opportunities and challenges
- The phases in design thinking: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, validate
- Design thinking in education and research
- Detecting real world problems
- Empathize and define: The empathy map
- Learning to define problems
- Data collection methods
- Useful digital tools
- Bonus track: Empathizing and defining in classroom projects
- Design-thinking and skill development
- Creativity in the classroom: generating innovative ideas
- Ideate and prototype
- Prototype templates: designing and documenting
- Useful digital tools
- Bonus track: Ideating and prototyping in classroom projects
- Designing and implementing tests
- Validating solutions
- Giving and receiving feedback
- Redesigning solutions
- Useful digital tools
- Bonus track: Testing and iterating in classroom projects
- Integrating design thinking to classroom planning
- Useful tools to support its implementation
- Registering process and results
- Useful digital tools
- Bonus track: Design thinking for the inclusive classroom
Evaluation criteria:
Course assessment will include both self-evaluation and instructor evaluation. Through self-evaluation, participants will regularly assess their own progress by completing various tasks, allowing them to celebrate achievements and identify areas for improvement. In addition, instructor evaluation will provide personalized feedback, offering guidance to support each participant’s growth and mastery of course content, offering guidance to support their mastery of the course content.
- Participation and commitment
- Completion of weekly forum entries
- Reflective participation
- Completion of weekly tasks
- Constructive peer feedback
- Completion of self-assessment activities
Schedule
Synchronic meetings
Wednesdays: from 4.00 p.m to 5. 00 pm (Spain time)
Duration
| TOTAL Course duration | 60 hs |
| Workshops | 10 hs |
| Lectures | 10 hs |
| Student preparation | 20 hs |
| Student homework | 20 hs |
