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”,...
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“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”,...
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...
In his book Well Designed, Jon Kolko explores “how to use empathy to create products people love.” We start from understanding real people, both in what...
Changing how we teach and learn is often a messy and inefficient process. In this article, I will describe an ideal change cycle, which I think...
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...
Education has very suddenly moved to a hybrid and flexible mode, sometimes referred to as “hyflex”. What does that mean? Hybrid: The media in which these...
That’s an attention grabbing headline, but the message behind it is simple: You can use Teams for videoconferencing, and it’s OK. But that’s like using an...
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...
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...
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....