Effective course design begins with understanding the process of thinking and learning. These processes are commonly termed "metacognition." Metacognition includes a critical awareness of one’s ...

Higher-order thinking skills and the ability to integrate technical knowledge with practical applications are vital for employees, especially in today's challenging job market. Can reflective writing ...

Organizers said the program will prepare students to work with communities to create scalable interventions for positive social change, with a particular focus on prototyping and testing new products ...

While new trends consistently emerge in higher education, rarely is a movement as widely talked about as design thinking. Stanford University’s d.school, founded in 2005, is a well-known leader in the ...

Are you a creative or inventive person? Or would you like to be? Would you like to harness your creativity to solve problems for your company or for society? Would you like to add design-driven ...

No one seems to remember exactly how it happened. They know it started with a Silicon Prairie News story about the University of Nebraska-Lincoln‘s Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and ...

Assignments: Make Them Effective, Engaging, and Equitable. At their best, assignments are one of the most important learning experiences for students in a course. Students grapple with course content, ...

As someone who had never taken a d.school class, when I heard the words “design thinking” they seemed to conjure a single image of rainbow Post-its. On the Post-its floated buzzwords that meant little ...

Dalhousie’s Academic Integrity Working Group has identified two core considerations to diminish student cheating. Designing courses (and assignments) that reduce pressures and other situations that ...