Human-Centered Design / Discipline
Human-centered design
Definition
An approach to design that grounds decisions in an understanding of people, their goals, contexts, constraints, and experiences, using iterative research and testing.
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Learning systems are more useful when learners and other stakeholders shape the problem definition as well as the solution.
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Sources and evidence
- LeBOK — 2.1 Definition of Human-Centered Design (direct)
- IEEE ICICLE — Learning Engineering Process (supporting)
- Learning Engineering Design Decision Tracking — Introduction; learning engineering definition; TechTrends p. 817; PDF p. 2 (supporting)
- World Bank EdTech Approach — p. 12 — Ask Why: education as a human-centered, socially intensive endeavor (supporting)