Category: Design Thinking

Students as Creative Designers and Developers of Relevant Learning Analytics: A First-Hand Experience Approach

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Dr Raghda Zahran, Programme and Project Manager from the Project Management Office worked with colleagues from the School of Computing to engage postgraduate students taking an Innovation Project, offering students a unique opportunity to apply their Data Science skills meaningfully, alongside developing an understanding of Learning Analytics from Newcastle University students’ perspectives, to inform the development of practical tools and strategies.

A photograph of Dr Lucy Hatt

Design Sprints as a collaborative pedagogy for innovation, enterprise and sustainability

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Dr Lucy Hatt, Senior Lecturer in Leadership, discusses how the Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA) at Newcastle University Business School uses the structured process of a Design Sprint to enable learners to develop entrepreneurial thinking and utilise design thinking techniques that can be applied to the workplace in real time.

Rosalind Beaumont

The SustainaWHAT? Gatherings – embedding Education for Sustainable Development in PGR education and researcher development

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Rosalind Beaumont, Senior Lecturer in School X discusses how Newcastle PGR students had the opportunity to come together via a cross-faculty series of events during COP26 in November 2021, to explore and discuss their research through the lens of sustainable development. This allowed students to develop a wide range of skills, collaborate across disciplines and reflect on their experiences and learning.

Using structural and stylistic domains within formative feedback to enhance students’ writing and communication at Level 3

Posted on by Claire Burnham

Professor Caroline Walker-Gleaves used formative feedback extensively with final year students to improve professional skills.

Raghda Zahran

Using Design Sprints to Stimulate Students Collaboration

Posted on by Claire Burnham

A Design Sprint is a process condensed in time, objective and outcomes used to transform an idea into a prototype. This case study explores how this approach was used to gather students’ feedback on using data analytics to support their learning experience