Cultivating Design Thinking in Students through Event Simulation Course
- DOI
- 10.2991/iceess-18.2018.25How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- teaching methodology, design thinking, learning experience
- Abstract
Event industry is facing a big challenge of sustainability. Students of event management will encounter the uncertainties of real world and business problems where many stakeholders are involved. The major purpose of education is to prepare the student for the change and the challenge through learning process. Therefore, it is necessary to incorporate design thinking into the teaching strategy and link to studies done in the field of cognition using abductive reasoning in addition to deductive and inductive skills. The objective of this paper is to discuss how to cultivate design thinking in students through Event Simulation Course. First, students are asked to do the research and report of what they have observed in 19th IE expo China 2018 about non-green problems and challenges from different perspective of stakeholders. And then they are required to plan a team project developing a possible solution for a 2028 Green Event using design thinking process and event model canvas tools. Research shows that design thinking as a teaching-learning methodology cultivates the students in three aspects: cognition, affection and interpersonal communication skills. The findings of the paper will help the facilitators to design a successful collaborative learning experience for the students in order to achieve the goal of learner outcome.
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- © 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Xuehui Zeng PY - 2018/10 DA - 2018/10 TI - Cultivating Design Thinking in Students through Event Simulation Course BT - Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Education, Economics and Social Science (ICEESS 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 99 EP - 102 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/iceess-18.2018.25 DO - 10.2991/iceess-18.2018.25 ID - Zeng2018/10 ER -