Creating Smart Connected Learning Ecosystems: A Hybrid Model for Design-Based Learning



: Rötkönen Erkki, Winschiers-Theophilus Heike, Goagoses Naska, Zaman Tariq, Itenge Helvi, Tan Daniel Yong Wen, Sutinen Erkki

Publisher: INTERACTION DESIGN & ARCHITECTURES

: 2022

: Id&a interaction design & architecture(s)

: INTERACTION DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURES

: INTERACT DES ARCHIT

: 52

: 81

: 100

: 20

: 1826-9745

: 2283-2998

DOI: https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-052-005

: https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-052-005

: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/175859045


Emerging technologies and new pedagogies, such as design-based learning, have the potential to revolutionize formal education systems. We postulate that smart learning ecosystems can be co-created through connecting schools and students across the globe to co-design their own virtual learning spaces by exploiting new affordances offered by digital technologies. This paper presents a Hybrid model for Design-Based learning (HyDe), which guides colocated and online design-based learning activities with geographically distributed students. It was conceptualized within a case study, wherein 63 students aged 11 to 13 from three schools in Namibia, Malaysia, and Finland collaborated on co-designing a virtual space to share local perspectives on global challenges. The HyDe model was refined based on reflections from the case study yielding in a model which can be integrated in school curricula across the globe, thereby creating a smart connected learning ecosystem.

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