ACHIEVING COST-EFFECTIVE DESIGN EDUCATION: HIGHEST QUALITY GRADUATES FOR LEAST RESOURCES AND COST

DS 48: Proceedings DESIGN 2008, the 10th International Design Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia

Year: 2008
Editor: Marjanovic D., Storga M., Pavkovic N., Bojcetic N.
Author: Cowdroy, R.; Williams, A.
Section: Teaching, education and training
Page(s): 1409 - 1416

Abstract

Design education takes many forms across the range of design disciplines but principally design education to mean development of ability to design. The purpose of this paper is to show how results of recent empirical research into the mental processes of various types of creativity apply to design education. The paper shows how the various combinations of creative thinking processes are directly relevant to all design, then goes on to show how these creative thinking processes can be assessed transparently and can make innovative and significant contributions to increasing design ability in students and graduates, and to meeting educational objectives of best practice, and institutional objectives of accountability and efficiency.

Keywords: design curriculum, teaching, assessment

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