This presentation was given by Ben Koo of the iCenter, Tsinghua University at the project meeting “Fostering and assessing students' creativity and critical thinking in higher education” on 20 June 2016 in Paris, France.
2. Before 1970s Truck Manufactring Divison
of Tsinghua Unviersity
1970s Metal Workshop
Required Courses for all students
2014 and later
The Maker-Space of Tsinghua
Offering a series of new courses
A bit of history
5. Assuming these metrics are
good…
HOW DO WE CONDUCT
CURRICULUM UNDER
TREMENDOUS TECHNOLOGICAL
CHANGES?
6. (C)
System
Integration
Design
Challenge
基于 所衍生的课程体系
(M)
System
Integration
Design
Challenge
Trans-Disciplinary Coginitive Foundation
System Design in Computational Thinking
Global Innovation/Manufacturing
Strategies
A. Societal Development
B. Technological Architectures
技术架构
C. Application-Oriented Projects
VR/AR
Content
Production
Machine
Learning
/AI
Advancded
Manufacturing
(Specializations)
Industry Analysis Report(IAR)
Science & Technology Analysis Report(STAR)
产品与产业分析报告 (PIAR)
Re-Combining Disciplinary Students’ Cognitive Habits
13. Learning Outcome
Interview Data
• Use a WeChat/WhatsApp like program to collect data
• Manually organize data based on Subject-Verb-Object sentence
structure
18. Effective (Binary)
• Creativity and Critical Thinking often needs be
judged in a Contextualized Environment.
Challenge
Designers
Creates
the
Contextual
Environment
Mission
Executors
Judges
whether the
Challenges
are useful
19. How XLP measures Effect
Let students participants in the
design of learning activities
They become responsible for
creating effects
20. Efficiency (Ratio)
• Can XLP be replicated?
• Can we calculate the efficiency?
• Can efficiency be maximized using
technologies?
21. Tools helps Efficiency
• After running XLP-based programs for many times,
we realized that Efficiency is Ruled by Tools
22. Efficacy (Usefulness)
• Fernando Reimers’ proposition:
– Move Mindset Designers (School of Education)
– In between School of Business and School of Engineering
Usefulness
is often
Judged by
interaction
23. Talent Recombination
• Type A:Strategic Thinkers and Policy Makers
• Type B:Technology and Infrastructure Operators
• Type C:Knowledge Management Professionals
Business
Executives
Israeli
Chip
Designer 华尔街日报,
路透社记者
Wall Street and
Reuter Reporters
24. Demo Product
Web Platforms
Media Events
Modeling Tools
(Programming
Languages,
AutoCAD,
PhotoShop,
InDesign)
Prototyping Tools
(Lego, Makeblock)
Content Distribution
Protocol (Git)
Data Collection
Devices (Cameras,
Microphones,
Input Devices)
Story Boarding
(PowerPoint)
Time Tables
(SmartSheet)
635 Method
Mission Statement
Multi-Level Design
Contracts (XMind)
Resource
Planning
Generate
Idea
Content
Exchange
Product
Dev.
XLP: a “Digital”Competency Program in the
Internet Age
25. Discussion
• Creative Educational Institutions are:
• Flexibly and Globally re-organized
• Creativity comes from Re-Combination
• adopting de-centralized “meet-up” formats
• student-directed and designed “courses”
• Integrative skills must be attained in
“developmental” modes
• The final outcome of integrative products/
services are the most direct measurement of
entrepreneurship capabilities
26. Conclusion
• Creativity comes from encounters of
mindsets, technologies, and applications
• Shared Project Goals enables students to
practice Constructive Criticism
• The ABC Curriculum cultivate creativity
and critical thinking on the Organizational
Level
A. Senior Executive and Government Officers
B. Leading Technologists and Providers
C. Application Specific Projects