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Encouraging Deep Learning Through Collaborative Projects And Publicexhibition, Lee Kwok Lang Jan 2017

Encouraging Deep Learning Through Collaborative Projects And Publicexhibition, Lee Kwok Lang

Faculty of Design & Environment (THEi)

This paper will present the advantages in the use of methodologies and tools of project based learning (PBL) in the teaching of a group of year one product design students in the Hong Kong context. The use of projects within the curriculum is not a revolutionary idea in design education nor education in general. In fact, PBL within design education at the tertiary level is common practice because its content is similar to real world jobs, in which tasks and projects are encountered by workers in their everyday jobs. Through PBL students can investigate things and explore some new insights …