The Educate! Design Process
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Design in Educate!
Educate! has been designing learning experiences for young people in East Africa for over 10 years! Amongst the products we designed are:
- Leadership and Entrepreneurship Course for secondary school students
- Teacher Association meetings for selected secondary school teachers
- Youth Business Experience for secondary school leavers to advance their personal projects
- Youth Entrepreneurship Training for young professionals interested in a career in entrepreneurship training
To make these learning experiences as meaningful and impactful as possible we follow a creative design process that intentionally studies the needs of learners and creatively crafts design products that are user-friendly. This session will expose you to the process Educate! designers follow to design experience based education.
Design process
The design process we use is inspired by two important schools of thought. One is 'Understanding by Design' introduced by Wiggins and McTighe, similar to their backward design approach, we design towards a specific set of skills and results. The second school of thought is 'Human centered design', an approach developed by Ideo. This second approach promotes keeping the people who are affected by the problem at the center of the problem solving process. Refining principles from both approaches further to our organisational mission and context, we established the following cyclical design process.
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