Dr. Lesley-Ann Noel from the Phyllis M. Taylor Center for Social Innovation and Design Thinking at Tulane University, delivered an inspiring talk about designing empowering education as part of a series organized by Elon’s Center for Design Thinking. … Read more
Teaching and learning during the Covid-19 global pandemic brought many challenges, but also led to promising innovations in how we design, deliver, and support learning experiences in higher education. On May 5th 2021, The Pandemic Pedagogy Research Symposium … Read more
Danielle Lake is Director of Design Thinking and Associate Professor at Elon University, NC. With a doctorate in philosophy from Michigan State University, Lake’s expertise spans “wicked problem” solving, design thinking and community engagement. Her teaching and scholarship … Read more
The ninth edition of the annual Innovating Pedagogy report is the product of a research collaboration between the Open University UK with the Artificial Intelligence and Human Languages Lab/The Institute of Online Education at Beijing Foreign Studies University. … Read more
A year of Corona has led me to think deeply about joyful learning experiences. In 2019, the Innovating Pedagogy report highlighted ‘Playful Learning’ among its ten showcased trends: There are many advantages to play in learning, both for … Read more
With many employees “working from home” during the pandemic, professional development programs are being challenged to create meaningful and engaging opportunities for adult learners, despite the physical distance. Jasmine Bishop and Enoch Park developed an online pilot course … Read more
I awoke with a start to my alarm. It was 3:45 a.m. and from a quick check out the window, very much the middle of the night. I dutifully got up and, fourteen minutes later, arrived via webcam … Read more
Tinkering, making, participatory design, design thinking – I love creative and haptic approaches to teaching, learning and web development. Over the past two years, I have been traveling back to Germany on several occasions to teach or co-teach … Read more
End of July, I participated in the first online edition of Digital Pedagogy Lab (https://dpl.online/). For those unfamiliar, Digital Pedagogy Lab is the professional development and practical training program from Hybrid Pedagogy (https://hybridpedagogy.org), the journal of critical digital … Read more
What is digital wellbeing and why does it matter more than ever? Higher education has been transformed in recent months in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, as face-to-face teaching on campus has been abruptly moved online. For most … Read more