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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Thinking creatively, solving complex problems, and working in teams… all add up to Design Thinking (DT). A study conducted by the Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL) and Ghent University ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...