http://metacole.com/2009/11/21/design-thinking-and-finding-true-love/ coleman yee on design thinking, education, and everything else Fri, 02 Dec 2011 01:31:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://metacole.com/2009/11/21/design-thinking-and-finding-true-love/#comment-2663 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:26:05 +0000 http://metacole.com/?p=245#comment-2663 Hi, saw your slides on Design Thinking. The fact that it was via Slideshare brought to mind an experiment I’ve been running on MEL here at the School. I put the lecture slides for the modules I teach on Slideshare and embedded them in MEL. It seems to have underwhelmed the students who told me (anecdotally) that they are NEVER in a hurry to view the slides, so the convenience of having them stream in MEL instead of requiring a download to view is lost, and they like to PRINT the slides, so they actually prefer the original powerpoints – in PPT format. They aren’t even in favour of PDFs because they want to be able to adjust the colours to their liking before printing. When I asked don’t the large downloads clog up their hard disks, the response is nope, because they just delete the downloads after printing. So: I am getting the picture that teachers are very far ahead indeed of their students when it comes to a paperless environment… Sounds random and unconnected but yeah that’s me…

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