Design as a Component of General Education
I have long been interested in design. I started my career as a computer scientist. I had fallen in love with programming at the age of 15 and wanted to…
PSU and the National GE Conversation
As I mentioned in my previous post, I recently attended the American Association of Colleges and Universities' 2017 General Education and Assessment Conference. Nearly every session I attended was directly…
AAC&U General Education Conference
Annette Holba, Annemarie Conlon, Sandra Van Gundy, Hilary Swank, and I attended the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) General Education Conference in Phoenix last week. The AAC&U is…
Holdover Design
Although I've categorized this post as related to Integrated Clusters, I've done that for my own ease of finding it in the future. The post is really about Design Thinking which…
Designing Your Life
As part of my work as a cluster guide, I've been continuing to read about design thinking. One of the books that I recently finished (in a mini-book club with my…
Design Thinking and Wicked Problems
When I visited Spain in 2008, I was impressed by all the little things the country was doing to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels. There were wind farms all…
Design Thinking and the Curriculum Planning Guide
If you've read any of my previous blog posts, you know that I am working with a group of faculty to modify Plymouth State University's First Year Seminar (FYS). We've…
