Designing Change: Critical Creativity in the Digital Age
In my new role as Director of Student Experience in the Arts Faculty at the University of Warwick, working with our other DSEP Rebecca Stone I...
April 24, 2021
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
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
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
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
Should we use anonymous discussion and messaging channels?
There are very good reasons for wanting to allow anonymous student participation in discussion forums and messaging channels. Students can feel less inhibited, more open to...
June 25, 2020
6 key dimensions for choosing collaboration options when teaching online
Medium, synchronicity, scale, lifecycle, control, and flexibility – the six key dimensions, defined and explained in this article. For successful online teaching, choose the options that...
May 26, 2020
When should we choose to teach live rather than asynchronously?
In an earlier article, I dissected a sophisticated learning design for live online active learning, with responsive teaching, peer-learning and group work in breakout rooms. As...
May 22, 2020
Two (virtual) heads are better than one for online lectures
Bo Kelestyn and I were asked to do an online version of our Introduction to Design Thinking lecture for the Humanitarian Engineering MSc at Warwick University....
May 21, 2020