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Syllabus Delft Design Approach MOOC Self Paced 2019 PDF
Syllabus Delft Design Approach MOOC Self Paced 2019 PDF
Syllabus Delft Design Approach MOOC Self Paced 2019 PDF
APPROACH
syllabus
mooc
2015
colophon
This course was
produced, written
& designed by
José Hekkens
Jaap Daalhuizen
Jan Schoormans
Annemiek van Boeijen
Koen Schellekens
Iris Jönsthövel
DESIGN
Jos Vlugter © TU Delft 2017
table of content
1. Introduction 4
1.1 Delft Design Approach 4
1.2 Delft Design Guide 5
2. Course structure 6
2.1 Planning 6
2.2 What to expect each week 8
3. Deliverables 9
3.1 Templates 9
3.2 How to upload your work 10
3.3 Share your work 11
3.4 Assessments 11
4. Discussion forum 12
4.1 Guidelines 12
Figure 1:
Delft Design Guide,
available in Chinese,
Japanese & English
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2.
course structure
2.1 Planning
The course is structured along 7 steps
that can be completed over a period
of 7-8 weeks. Each week will teach
you a key element of the Delft Design
Approach, including relevant methods
and/or tools. When you go through the
whole course you will complete a whole
‘design cycle’ in 4 main phases: Discover,
Define, Design & Deliver.
Before you start the course, you will get
familiar with the contents and structure
of the course in the ‘welcome’ section.
Then, we kick off by introducing you
to the way that we advocate Design
in Delft. In this first week, we will also
teach you how to design meaningful
products for people. After that, the
course takes you through the Delft
Design Approach as illustrated in Figure
2. There is also an (optional) extra
assignment: building a prototype for
your final concept!
The course starts with an exploration of
the design theme. You will then define
your own design challenge within that
theme, design something that meets
your design challenge and deliver your
end result in a final presentation.
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2.2 What to expect each week your own design project. The details of
each assignment will be revealed per
Each week (or period of two weeks) of week. In most assignments we ask you
the course has more or less the same to upload a picture or a link to a short
structure. Figure 3 shows what content movie or presentation of your work.
you can expect every week and what Assessment
kind of activities are expected from you. Every week we will ask you to assess
Introduction videos your results. This will be done via self
Each week starts with an introduction assessments and checklists. For more
video by Dr. Ir. Jaap Daalhuizen. He will see Chapter 3.4.
highlight the previous week’s learning
points and introduce the topic of the Benchmark video
new week. For each exercise, there will be a
benchmark video to which you can
Lecture videos
compare your own work. You can
The topic and related methods and/or
use it either before you start with the
tools are introduced in two or more
assignment as inspiration, or afterwards
videos by the relevant lecturer. There is
for reflection purposes. The benchmark
a quiz after each lecture that you can
video shows you how Koen and Iris,
use to test your knowledge.
two experienced students from Delft,
Assignment template did the same exercises, and it contains
For each assignment you can find reflections from a design professional.
instructions that guide you through the
steps. You will also find a downloadable Sofa session
template (PDF) that you can use to At the end of each week there is a sofa
present your results. session video in which Dr. Ir. Annemiek
van Boeijen discusses intermediate
Design assignment
results and shares some inspiring
In this course we focus on the design
examples that were submitted by
exercises. We think this is the most
learners during the instructor-paced
important part of the course. And the
version of this course.
most fun! The exercises build on each
other, so as you go along, they form
8 Delft Design Approach Syllabus
Figure 2: Course structure
Video
Quiz
lecture 1
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3.
deliverables
3.1 Templates
A work template will accompany every
week’s assignment. These templates
will guide you through the steps of the
assignment. You can fill these in on your
computer or use a printed version. A
printed version also allows you to clarify
your thoughts with drawings. This can
help in communicating your ideas; see
Figure 4.
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3.3 Share your work 3.4 Assessments
If you want to get direct feedback from Every week we ask you to assess your
your peers in an open conversation we work through checklists and/or self-
advise you to share your work on the assessments.
discussion forum. The discussion forum
In Table 1 you can find when to perform
can be found on the edX platform (for
which assessment.
guidelines See chapter 5 Discussion
forum).
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5.
grading and certification
5.1 Grading 5.2 Certification
The assessment of exercises together If you are a verified learner, when you
with the final presentation will have earned 60% or more of the total
determine whether you passed the score, you will receive a certificate. You
course or not (see Figure 5). In total you can see your progress in the Progress
will be asked to complete 3 checklists tab on edX.
and 4 self-assessments (including the
The verified option is available for $79-.
final presentation). In order to
Doing the course for fun is totally fine,
successfully pass the course we
but sometimes you need to complete a
encourage you to complete all of them.
course to get a better job or to include
in a college application. Besides,
working towards a verified certificate
has proven to keep students more
motivated. If you want to, you can
change your registration on the site.
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or meaningful ideas. In order to If possible follow this course
explain the merits of an idea, together with your colleagues or
it’s important to back it up with friends. Experiences from other
evidence from your field work online courses show that it is
or with an explanation why your very motivating to do the course
idea or concept is valuable to its together.
users. This helps the person giving
Have fun! In this course you have
the feedback to solidify their
the freedom to choose your own
understanding of a concept.
direction. You have the opportunity
Remember that the best way to to design something for a challenge
learn how to design is by designing that you formulate yourself and
things yourself. Going through for a user-group that you choose.
the iterative process of designing is Please don’t do things just because
what makes your design better and we ask you to. Do them because you
your design skills sharper. So take see the value and enjoy creating a
the opportunity to take the methods meaningful design!
and tools that we offer and apply
them in actual design work.
On the forum, give your peers the
kind of constructive feedback that
you would want to receive. Don’t
just point out the negative parts of
someone’s work, but instead provide
suggestions for how he or she
could improve it. Try to both point
out things that are well done and
things that could be improved (and
suggestions for how they might do
that!)