Design-based learning

Design projects require students to establish goals and constraints, generate ideas, and create prototypes through storyboarding or other representational practices.

Design-based learning was developed in the 1980s by Doreen Nelson, a professor at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona and the Art Center College of Design.

Her findings suggested that kinesthetic problem-solving helps students acquire, retain, and synthesize information in practical ways.

In-depth experience in design activities and creation of meaningful outcomes in technology were observed in terms of the finished product, documentation, and reflection.

[5] Research has found that students who participate in learning by design projects have a more systematic understanding of a system's parts and functions that control groups (Hmelo, Holton, & Kolodner, 2000).