Lessons Learned from Digital Design Studio during the Outbreak of COVID-19
Problem Definition:While universities are keeping their classrooms virtual because of the outbreak of COVID-19, it is not yet clear when they will be able to return to the "normal" status. Developing virtual lectures has become a solution for many fields. However, the teacher-centered lect...
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Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz
2021-02-01
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| Series: | پیکره |
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| Online Access: | https://paykareh.scu.ac.ir/article_16682_f793e0428f2b13da3ae0ce3fc48dead3.pdf |
| Summary: | Problem Definition:While universities are keeping their classrooms virtual because of the outbreak of COVID-19, it is not yet clear when they will be able to return to the "normal" status. Developing virtual lectures has become a solution for many fields. However, the teacher-centered lecture-style classes are not responsive to design studios, which rely on dynamic, collaborative, and creative processes. Providing similar platforms to instructors for online teaching in different disciplines, from theoretical to practical courses, in Iran has become a challenge for design courses that require studio spaces. Objective: The aim is to share lessons learned in applying parallel approaches and tools to restore active, collaborative, and creative learning processes into design studio classes. Research Method: Drawing on Design-Based Research (DBR) approach, which is a qualitative methodology to refine and improve learning practices in iterative cycles of designing, evaluating, and re-designing, this paper aims at sharing some learned lessons from developing virtual design studios using the potentials of the existing digital tools that can bring dynamic learning spaces to design education in the virtual world. Results: The emerged themes included collaboration and group work, ability to upload and download multiple formats, possibility of student-centered asynchronous time management leading towards improving students’ learning experiences, observation of learning and thinking process with the possibility of refinement and improvement, and necessity of digital literacy. Codes and themes were extracted from data as units of analysis using Thematic Analysis in this qualitative research. This paper includes the lessons learned from two different design studios: a Basic Design studio for undergraduate Architecture students, and a participatory design studio for non-designer Ph.D. students. In both studios, Padlet platform was used a virtual space to collaborate and share ideas. |
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| ISSN: | 2322-4622 2588-6789 |