- Title
- Evaluating the integration of digital design and prototyping tools in a problem-based learning tertiary level course
- Creator
- Jones, W. M.; Gu, N.; Williams, A.
- Relation
- 44th Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Architectural Science Association (ANZAScA 2010). On the Edge: Conference Papers of the 44th Annual Conference of ANZAScA (Auckland, New Zealand 24-26 November, 2010)
- Relation
- http://www.unitec.ac.nz/unitec/anzasca/abstract.html
- Publisher
- Unitec Institute of Technology
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2010
- Description
- This paper presents an example for tertiary level education institutions to establish and develop a digital design and prototyping course in a problem-based learning environment. The paper reports on a developed framework that was used as a basis for a computational design course involving a mixed cohort of architecture and industrial design students. Using a practical design brief, students went through a design process with an object (either physical or virtual) as an assessment submission, including providing an appropriate solution to an identified problem. This design scenario, involving the investigation of a range of possible outcomes, evaluates specific realisation tools that are currently bound in the academic domain and yet to be utilised effectively by industry. Outcomes of the course included a range of perception-challenging forms and a thorough evaluation of the course from the students’ experience of using both familiar and unfamiliar design tools. A quantitative analysis of the students’ self-reflection enabled the course leaders to refine the course structure, design brief, teaching methods, project context and outcomes that will improve the learning of successive years of students.
- Subject
- digital design; problem-based learning; student experiences; course design
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/933160
- Identifier
- uon:11555
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780473180003
- Language
- eng
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