Resumen de An emergent approach to design thinking and collaborative team composition in an introduction to engineering course
Traditional approaches to design thinking in introductory engineering courses often prescribe the challenge problem,target users, and/or composition of the student design team itself. Inspired by the more fluid conceptualization ofcollaborative teamwork found in the OpenIDEO platform, as well as the emphasis on emergent teams and problems whosemembers take collective cognitive responsibility for idea improvement that is the hallmark of Knowledge Buildingpedagogy, we asked, how might we re-imagine the introduction to engineering experience to emphasize more emergent andcollective problem definition, team composition, and individual and collective agency? The aim of this paper will be toshare the process and results of this re-design in its first iteration, and place it within the context of the learning sciences.
