The Design Thinking Signature Pedagogy, Feedback and Co-Design with Students
A quick response to a question about how we collect and use feedback from our students. Based on the modules I teach with Dr Bo Kelestyn....
January 13, 2021
Senior Academic Technologist, Education Group, University of Warwick.
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy,
National Teaching Fellow,
Warwick Award for Teaching Excellence.
Going from teaching in a physically co-present mode to teaching online is EXTREMELY DIFFICULT FOR THE BEST TEACHERS
This is a short article written to help people in thinking through their choice of techniques for teaching online. It is aimed at people who have...
January 9, 2021
Use keyboard shortcuts when editing Moodle courses
I’m currently creating Moodle based web pages for our Design Thinking courses (undergrad and postgrad at the University of Warwick). Moodle certainly wasn’t designed using modern...
November 15, 2020
Teaching IL029 (presentation for the Design Research Society)
Part 1 explores the challenges: And part 2, with some solutions: And here’s the house we built together in Tilt Brush. It’s got a palm tree...
October 27, 2020
Getting set-up to teach synchronously using Teams
Problem When teaching synchronously (live) in Teams meetings, you may need to do quite a few different tasks at the same time – some of which...
October 2, 2020
Preparing for (mostly) remote teaching in 2020-2021 – how Design Thinkers do it Part 1
I teach 2 interdisciplinary modules at Warwick University with Dr Bo Kelestyn: Introduction to Design Thinking (undergrad) and the new Design Thinking for Social Impact (postgrad)....
September 17, 2020
Camera techniques for academic film making
This is a resource that I made a few years ago. It is designed for the complete novice, to show how they can use simple techniques...
August 23, 2020
Design fixation and idea ownership in Design Thinking
Some thoughts on design fixation, and teaching Design Thinking, in response to the article “Whose ideas are most fixating, your own or other people’s? The effect...
August 8, 2020
Reading – July 2020
“Design anthropology for emerging technologies: Trust and sharing in autonomous driving futures”, Sarah Pink. et al., Design Studies 69, 2020. “Participatory design for sustainable social change”,...
August 4, 2020
Teams, team-working, and design principles for supporting it
I recently published an article in which I argued that Microsoft Teams is a team-working platform, works well as such, and we should not try to...
July 1, 2020