Category: design
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moment of the good idea
The moment that I thought it would be a good idea to write a book http://ESM 2009 There was also a fleeting unarchived use of the phrase by Thecla Schiphorst, circa 2007. Abrahamson recycled the phrase “embodied design” into the learning sciences to describe an approach to the construction of pedagogical materials and activities that…
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Embodied Design
Overview The phrase “embodied design” was first coined by van Rompay and Hekkert (2001), industrial designers who used Lakoff and Johnson’s cognitive semantics theory of conceptual metaphor to predict the emotional affect that humans would attribute to architectural structures, such as bus stops.
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Why design?
The most interesting activities as an educational advisor was to work in project in which a complete new curriculum has te be developed. Or a taskforce in which we had to formulate a set of quality criteria to be realized. Ans of course also when I have to develop a new course to be organized…
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Course design is designing
In 1987 Tony Earls book The art and craft of course design was published. Why is it so interesting to refer to ideas from a book from twenty five years ago. Designing is described as a process of art and craftsmanship One of the reviewers of Tony’s book in that time, gave this clear remark: ‘ You need skills like formulation…