Study Guide

Objective

1. Understanding the user-centric problem-solving method and its usability in development tasks
2. Analysing the development task
3. Understanding the customer problem
4. Defining the development task
5. Concepting
6. Getting customer feedback
7. Group work skills

Content

For day programmes the course is a one-week intensive course. The students will not take part in other SeAMK courses during it. During the SeAMK Innovation week, the students will solve real working life problems in multidisciplinary student teams by means of the design thinking method. In accordance with the method, the students will focus on both customer and business perspectives. The Innovation Week results in a tried-and-tested solution concept.
For students in multimodal study programmes, an online course is arranged.

Materials

All material can be found on the course's Moodle platform.

Teaching methods

Pretasks, independent team work, reflection task

Student workload

53 h

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Passed: All assignments completed, active participation
Failed: Pretask not accepted, inactive participation, reflection task missing

Evaluation scale

Passed/failed

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

A personal learning assignment and group development assignment

Assessment methods and criteria

Completion of the pretask and other course assignments and active attendance during the course.

Qualifications

None.