About This Course
This course will take participants through steps of design thinking as applicable in education. Through collaboration and iterative thinking around the design, participants will develop ways of thinking through and creating solutions to their identified problems. This involves integrating the students’ context, affordances of technology and consideration of systemic constraints into the design thinking process to create meaningful, implementable and contextual solutions. This course is suitable for teachers, curriculum designers and developers, teacher educators, education practitioners and those involved/interested in materials and curriculum design and development in the subjects of language (Modern Indian Languages including English as a first or second language), mathematics and science, education technology, textbook design, children’s learning, (interdisciplinary) themes like environment, gender etc.
Modality of delivery:
The course will be spread over 6 weeks. The course includes fieldwork and self-study.
- In-person/Online Synchronous (Hours) 12
- Online (Hours) 10
- Fieldwork hours 22
- Self-study 16
Objectives:
The objective of this course is to introduce ‘Design Thinking in Education’ for creating meaningful, pedagogically valid teaching-learning resources and experiences. The course aims to help participants:
- Locate and identify a pedagogical problem within a context
- Design creative solutions for a problem
- Integrate technology to address the problem
- Prototype and test the tool/resource
- Create an iteration of the tool/resource
Who can join the course:
Education practitioners (teachers, teacher educators, curriculum and material designers, ed-tech designers, etc)