Educators' Workshops

Calling all faculty, TAs, student teachers, and K-12 instructors! These free workshops are designed for anyone involved in teaching and eager to integrate Human-Centered Design into their courses. Discover creative, effective ways to engage students, enhance learning experiences, and bring innovation to your teaching methods.

Exploring Ways of Integrating Human-Centered Design in your Teaching and Courses

How can you teach about, through, and with Human-Centered Design? This workshop introduces instructors to Human-Centered Design and its potential applications in teaching strategies and course materials.

Date: Thursday, September 12, 2024 from 12:30-1:30p (run remotely)

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Empathy and Iteration in Teaching

Aimed at instructors interested in teaching with Human-Centered Design, this workshop will focus on the design thinking tools you can implement to empathize with your students, as well as teaching activities and strategies.

Date: Thursday, September 26, 2024 from 12:30-1:30p (run remotely)

Creating Human-Centered Design Challenges

Are you ready to consider your course learning objectives in a new light? This workshop presents a framework for creating design challenges that address course objectives and offer students authentic design experiences. This framework can also be used to explore potential project topics and create human-centered design prompts. All instructional backgrounds are welcome!

Date: Thursday, October 10, 2024 from 12:30-1:30p (run remotely)

Facilitating and Assessing Students' Performance during Human-Centered Design Challenges

This workshop elaborates on teaching practices useful for facilitating students’ engagement in collaborative problem-solving activities. We will also introduce assessment tools for evaluating students’ performance and learning during human-centered design challenges.

Date: Thursday, October 24, 2024 from 12:30-1:30p (run remotely)

Using Design Tools for Research and Teaching: Introduction to Miro

This workshop will introduce you to the basics of Miro - a virtual whiteboard tool used across many industries to create and collaborate - as well as tools and best practices developed by the SCD team. SCD uses Miro to collect and organize research, to facilitate remote and asynchronous work, and to create assignments and collaborative environments for student group projects. In this session, we’ll show you examples of how we use it in our work and provide templates and suggestions for how you might begin using it for instruction or research.

Date: Thursday, November 7, 2024 from 12:30-1:30p (run remotely)

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Educators' Workshops

Find ways to incorporate HCD and Design Thinking into your curricula and instruction with Workshops designed for Instructors

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Workshops focus on the HCD mindsets and design thinking process, and can be customized to include your group's projects and interests.

Instructor Retreats

SCD facilitates retreats for Faculty and Staff interested in learning more about Human-Centered Design and applying it to your departments' tasks or projects.