Opening Slides for ICEM2012

2. University of Nicosia
 Established in 1980 (as Intercollege)
 The largest non governmental university
 4800 students from 60 countries
 Offers undergraduate (BSc), postgraduate
(MA / MBA) degrees and PhD degrees
 Employs over 470 staff
 Masters and Ph.D. in Learning Design

3. CARDET’s Mission
Inspire innovation, and to promote education,
research, and development through evidence-
based practices, cutting-edge research, and
empowered people.

4. Global Membership

5. Policies
© CARDET
Best Practices
SYSTEMIC – SYSTEMATIC – SUSTAINABLE
Education School of
Training The Future
DESIGN THINKING Research & Evaluation
Innovation Strategy &
Entrepreneurship Execution
QUALITY
Learning Emerging
Design Technologies
INNOVATION
Social Education
Justice For ALL

6. Trends
• Mobile Apps
• Tablet Computing
• Game-based learning
• Learning analytics
• Gesture-based computing
• Personal Learning Environments
• Natural User Interfaces

7. www.itlresearch.com
INNOVATIVE TEACHING
AND LEARNING RESEARCH
2011 Findings and Implications

9. moma.org

10. Conference in numbers

11. “Design thinking can be described
as a discipline that uses the
designer’s sensibility and methods
to match people’s needs with what
is technologically feasible”
(Kelley)

12. The Design Process
http://www.ideo.com

13. Characteristics of Design Thinking
• Creative process
• Human centered
• Situated and contextualized
• Culture and people roles
(not with ICT)
• A participatory system

14. Design thinking as a process,
highlights a shift
from instructional design to learning design
from instruction to learning
from teacher to learner

15. Design thinking as a framework
encourages us to act as
LEARNING ARCHITECTS

16. Twitter: #ICEMCY12
Facebook: ICEM2012 Cyprus
Web: icem2012.cardet.org