A Design Thinking Odyssey: Measuring and Documenting Graduate Learning Outcomes in the Co-Curricular Space

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Author(s): Alvin Sim (Singapore Management University, Singapore)and Paulin Tay Straughan (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
Copyright: 2021
Pages: 11
Source title: Applying Design Thinking to the Measurement of Experiential Learning
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Adam Peck (Illinois State University, USA)and Danielle DeSawal (Indiana University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7768-4.ch008

Keywords: Education / Information Science Reference / Instructional Design / Learning Assessment and Measurement

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Co-curricular experiences should be warranted a fair amount of attention in higher education, particularly for their ability to help students develop real-world employability skills and a platform for them to critically reflect upon and expand their perspectives. These are crucial in developing the future-ready graduate – the type of graduate the Singapore Management University (SMU) strives to nurture. Yet, the authors have discovered that many students go from one activity to another without understanding what they can actually be getting out of these activities and how each activity connects to life after university. This has led the authors to seek to address the problem: “How might we rethink the purpose and delivery of co-curricular learning?” As part of the design thinking odyssey, this chapter details the prototype SMU has embarked on to measure and document students' learning in the co-curricular space.

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