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Design Thinking and the Wicked Problem of Teaching Writing

Carrie S. Leverenz
- 01 Sep 2014 - 
- Vol. 33, Iss: 33, pp 1-12
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In this paper, the authors explore how the tenets of design thinking as described by Richard Buchanan, Nigel Cross, Lucy Kimbell, Tim Brown and others might be applied to writing instruction and recommend that we apply design thinking to writing classes by teaching writing as a design process, creating wicked writing assignments, encouraging writing in teams, and fostering experimentation through prototyping.
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This article is published in Computers and Composition.The article was published on 2014-09-01. It has received 61 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Professional writing & Design thinking.

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A qualitative review of the design thinking framework in health professions education.

TL;DR: The findings raise important considerations for health professions education, including the extent to which design thinking should be taught to students as a skill-based tool to prepare students for problem solving in complex healthcare environments.
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Design Thinking in Education: Perspectives, Opportunities and Challenges

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss design thinking as a process and mindset for collaboratively finding solutions for wicked problems in a variety of educational settings and present case studies, reports, theoretical reflections, and other scholarly work to enhance our understanding of the purposes, contexts, benefits, limitations, affordances, constraints, effects and outcomes of design thinking in education.
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Product-Service System (PSS) design: Using Design Thinking and Business Analytics to improve PSS Design

TL;DR: In this article, a methodology that integrates Design Thinking and Business Analytics (BA) in the Product-Service System (PSS) design in a way to build a profitable and lasting PSS is proposed.
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Using Design Thinking to Write and Publish Novel Teaching Cases: Tips From Experienced Case Authors:

TL;DR: In this paper, teaching cases play a vital role in the business curriculum, not only allowing instructors to expose strategies to students, but also allowing them to expose the relationships between management education and practice.
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The chronicle of higher education

Gail A. Herndon
- 01 Apr 1977 - 
TL;DR: Leaders of 23 of 139 public research institutions and public-college systems surveyed this year by The Chronicle will make more than $500,000, an increase from the 17 identified in last year's slightly smaller survey.
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Wicked Problems in Design Thinking

Richard Buchanan
- 21 Jan 1992 - 
TL;DR: The first French university symposium on design research was held in 1990 at l'Universit6 de Technologie de Compiegne, this paper, with the theme of "Colloque Recherches sur le Design: Incitations, Implications, Interactions".
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Design Thinking

Peter G. Rowe
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Designerly ways of knowing

TL;DR: In this article, the authors take up the arguments for a "third area" of education (design) that were outlined by Archer, and further define this area by contrasting it with the other two (sciences and humanities) and consider the criteria which design must satisfy to be acceptable as a part of general education.
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“Multiliteracies”: New Literacies, New Learning

TL;DR: The authors examines the changing landscape of literacy teaching and learning, revisiting the case for a "pedagogy of multiliteracies" first put by the New London Group in 1996, and develops a language with which to talk about representation and communication in educational contexts.