My Experience: Developing and Teaching Online Courses

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I started a course in ‘Edupreneurship’ in 2019. Most people I spoke to about the same had never heard of the term or what it entailed. At the time and in relation to my future planning, what it offered seemed … Continued

Examining the Design History Course

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The need to think and act globally, the fact that our world is more interconnected than what we would like to think and the fact makes me want to say that we need to relook at the way we teach … Continued

DESIGN HISTORY: Globalisation and the Critical Thinking Process

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John Dewey (1910) introduced the term ‘critical thinking’ as the name of an educational goal, which he identified with a scientific attitude of mind. More commonly, he called the goal ‘reflective thought’, ‘reflective thinking’, ‘reflection’, or just ‘thought’ or ‘thinking’. [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/critical-thinking/]. … Continued

LATERAL THINKING: Why we need it today

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In the past technological development replaced physical strength but off late it is replacing the way humans think. The computer algorithms happily take on the repetitive tasks. See the example of the Nutella labelling [https://www.dezeen.com/2017/06/01/algorithm-seven-million-different-jars-nutella-packaging-design] and this was way back … Continued