This presentation was given by Ben Koo of the iCenter, Tsinghua University at the project meeting “Fostering and assessing students' creativity and critical thinking in higher education” on 20 June 2016 in Paris, France.

1. Ben Koo
iCenter, Tsinghua University

2. Before 1970s Truck Manufactring Divison
of Tsinghua Unviersity
1970s Metal Workshop
Required Courses for all students
2014 and later
The Maker-Space of Tsinghua
Offering a series of new courses
A bit of history

3. Maker/Hacker
Education
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4. • iCenter serves more than 6000+ students
annually

5. Assuming these metrics are
good…
HOW DO WE CONDUCT
CURRICULUM UNDER
TREMENDOUS TECHNOLOGICAL
CHANGES?

6. (C)
System
Integration
Design
Challenge
基于 所衍生的课程体系
(M)
System
Integration
Design
Challenge
Trans-Disciplinary Coginitive Foundation
System Design in Computational Thinking
Global Innovation/Manufacturing
Strategies
A. Societal Development
B. Technological Architectures
技术架构
C. Application-Oriented Projects
VR/AR
Content
Production
Machine
Learning
/AI
Advancded
Manufacturing
(Specializations)
Industry Analysis Report（IAR）
Science & Technology Analysis Report（STAR）
产品与产业分析报告 （PIAR）
Re-Combining Disciplinary Students’ Cognitive Habits

7. Digital Publishing Workflow

8. Modularized Technologies
Window Farm Intelligent Bag IoT Sandbox
Arduino
移动电源
GPS模块
Arduino
移动电源
GPS模块
Arduino
移动电源
通信模块
PM2.5监测模块
温度监测模块
甲醛监测模块
湿度监测模块
照明模块
太阳能电池模块
警报系统模块
手机通信模块
棋子运送模块
棋子位置感知模块
网页棋盘模块
手机控制模块

9. Concept
Generation
Resource
Planning
Coordi
-nation
Engineering
Refinement
Content：Project-based
Learning Cycles
Institutionalized Mechanism：
The Four Motivating Forces
Metrics：Process Data
and Learning Analytics
A Crowd Learning Behavior Model
Market
Deployment

10. Tsinghua and MIT’s Otto Scharmer
Innovation needs multiple tiers
of awareness

11. A Social Technology for Coordination
https://www.presencing.com/ego-to-eco/social-evolution

12. MediaWiki for Knowledge Sharing

13. Learning Outcome
Interview Data
• Use a WeChat/WhatsApp like program to collect data
• Manually organize data based on Subject-Verb-Object sentence
structure

14. Create
Evaluate
Analysis
Apply
Understand
Memorize
Bloom Taxanomy in
Chinese
Visualize Behavioral Data in
Bloom’s Taxanomy

15. Learning Process Data (Gource)

16. Simulate Crowd Learning

17. Tsinghua’s 3E Metrics
• Effective (Binary)
• Efficiency (Ratio)
• Efficacy (Useful?)

18. Effective (Binary)
• Creativity and Critical Thinking often needs be
judged in a Contextualized Environment.
Challenge
Designers
Creates
the
Contextual
Environment
Mission
Executors
Judges
whether the
Challenges
are useful

19. How XLP measures Effect
Let students participants in the
design of learning activities
They become responsible for
creating effects

20. Efficiency （Ratio）
• Can XLP be replicated？
• Can we calculate the efficiency？
• Can efficiency be maximized using
technologies？

21. Tools helps Efficiency
• After running XLP-based programs for many times,
we realized that Efficiency is Ruled by Tools

22. Efficacy （Usefulness）
• Fernando Reimers’ proposition：
– Move Mindset Designers (School of Education)
– In between School of Business and School of Engineering
Usefulness
is often
Judged by
interaction

23. Talent Recombination
• Type A：Strategic Thinkers and Policy Makers
• Type B：Technology and Infrastructure Operators
• Type C：Knowledge Management Professionals
Business
Executives
Israeli
Chip
Designer 华尔街日报，
路透社记者
Wall Street and
Reuter Reporters

24. Demo Product
Web Platforms
Media Events
Modeling Tools
(Programming
Languages,
AutoCAD,
PhotoShop,
InDesign)
Prototyping Tools
(Lego, Makeblock)
Content Distribution
Protocol (Git)
Data Collection
Devices (Cameras,
Microphones,
Input Devices)
Story Boarding
(PowerPoint)
Time Tables
(SmartSheet)
635 Method
Mission Statement
Multi-Level Design
Contracts (XMind)
Resource
Planning
Generate
Idea
Content
Exchange
Product
Dev.
XLP: a “Digital”Competency Program in the
Internet Age

25. Discussion
• Creative Educational Institutions are:
• Flexibly and Globally re-organized
• Creativity comes from Re-Combination
• adopting de-centralized “meet-up” formats
• student-directed and designed “courses”
• Integrative skills must be attained in
“developmental” modes
• The final outcome of integrative products/
services are the most direct measurement of
entrepreneurship capabilities

26. Conclusion
• Creativity comes from encounters of
mindsets, technologies, and applications
• Shared Project Goals enables students to
practice Constructive Criticism
• The ABC Curriculum cultivate creativity
and critical thinking on the Organizational
Level
A. Senior Executive and Government Officers
B. Leading Technologists and Providers
C. Application Specific Projects