EXPLORATION INSTEAD OF Frustration

Student-Centered Approaches to Technical Project Design

This case study examines how alternative approaches to project / assignment design can be utilized to enhance and/or expand potential student learning outcomes for projects that incorporate - and require - technical understanding, creative processes, and integrated knowledge / understanding. This presentation is especially useful for those teaching within the Arts, but could be applied to other areas of research and topic / subject-matter focus.

The outcomes of this student-centered and play-informed approach to project design resulted in several positive and unexpected student outcomes, along with a wide range of general in-class results/outputs.

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