"A Design Thinking Workshop on new strategies to engage students in Higher Education" Coimbra Group - Granada, March 2019 Education Innovation Working Group Seminar on Students Engagement

1. ESTEBAN ROMERO-FRÍAS
JAVIER CANTÓN
SANDRA HARO
@MEDIALABUGR || MEDIALAB@UGR.ES
A
DESIGN THINKING WORKSHOP
ON NEW STRATEGIES TO
ENGAGE STUDENTS
IN HIGHER EDUCATION

2. Complexity
Technological innovations
Speed
Change in the needs and
expectations of students

3. How to approach
complexity?
Fotografía:
Complexity of Railways in Paris,
por Armando G. Alonso,
licencia CC by-nc-sa,
https://flic.kr/p/9781gW

4. Our goal is to design the future,
from passion, creativity and
knowledge, in open organizations
that constantly learn.

5. What is
Design Thinking?

7. • Design focused on people: value of
empathy.
• Oriented to action.
• Experimentation and prototyping: it is an
integral part of the innovation process. It is
prototyped to learn and think.
• Show it, do not say it: generate experiences,
tell stories, be visual.
• The power of iteration: cycle after cycle we
arrive at a better solution.
Design Thinking

8. Design Thinking
in Higher Education?

10. Institutional, pedagogical
and technological new
strategies to engage
students at XXI century
universities.
Our Workshop

11. 1) Presentation of Design
Thinking methodology

12. Workshop soundtrack
https://open.spotify.com/user/javicanton/playlist/2eHmIGFOe5FgomtxiawgHR?si=URxncy0LQFSYmcGuMJEs0A

13. You will find 3 posters corresponding to each of the three topics of the
workshop:
• An institutional strategy to students engagement.
• A pedagogical strategy to students engagement.
• A technological strategy to students engagement.
Take a post-it (yellow for technical staff and green for researchers) and
write down the following information:
• First name and last name.
• University.
• Position you hold / Area of knowledge.
• 3-5 Keywords to express the interest to participate in the group you
like.
Each participant will place his/her post-it in the group to meet other
colleagues with the same interest.
2. Team building (10 min.)

14. Please, share your concerns and experiences in
relation to institutional / pedagogical /
technological strategies to engage students.
3) Share experiences and
challenges (25 min.)

15. 4) Define your challenge
(15 min.)

16. Define your challenge
• SYNTHESISE THE CHALLENGE YOU WANT TO SOLVE IN A
SINGLE SENTENCE
• BE AS ACCURATE AS YOU CAN

17. 5) Generate ideas (20 min.)
Brainstorming to generate ideas for your challenge.
Do not worry about feasibility at this time.

18. Brainstorming
JUST SHARE IDEAS

19. 5) Design your proposal
(40 min.)
This is time to combine your the best ideas in order to design a
feasible proposal. To do this you have the following tools:
1) SWOT analysis in order to better understand the context in
which you are innovating.

20. Build on STRENGTHS
Avoid THREATSResolve WEAKNESSES
Exploit OPPORTUNITIES
INTERNAL EXTERNAL
SWOT Analysis
S O
TW

21. 5) Design your proposal
(40 min.)
2) Stakeholders map: identify who are the main
persons and institutions that you should involved in the
project to generate a successful result.

22. Core
Direct
Indirect
Core: participants in the project.
Direct: stakeholders within the academic institution that
you should involve in the project.
Indirect: stakeholders outside the academic institution
that you should involve in the project.
Stakeholders
map
WHO SHOULD BE
INVOLVED?

23. 5) Design your proposal
(40 min.)
3) Prototype: Sketch your prototype or create a journey
map to show the process that you have imagined.

24. Sketch your idea
VISUALISE YOUR PROPOSAL

25. Journey map
SHOW US THE NEW PROCESS

26. 6) Share your process and
results (60 min.)
Each group will present, in 5 minutes, the results and the
innovation process to the rest of the workshop participants. Then
we’ll have a general discussion about the process and the results.