India and Japan Joint Project-Based Learning -What was Learned from the Design Thinking Workshop

摘要

This study proposes a new instructional method with design thinking for international engineering education program. I had international PBL (project-based leaning) courses with Indian students twice times. Those PBL aims to learn as follows: (1) Intercultural and diversity mind, (2) Project Management, (3) Design Thinking, (4) Engineering knowledge and skills. To make suggestion for a new instructional method, I analyzed the daily reports and final reports whom Japanese participants of two courses write as Design Based Research (DBR). DBR is the one of the research method for learning. According to BARAB and SQUIR (2004)[1], Design Based Research is "a series of approaches, with the intent of producing new theories, artifacts, and practices that account for and potentially impact learning and teaching in naturalistic settings". Reeves(2006) made a process flowchart of DBR as fig. 1 [2].