Making Pedagogic Sense of Design Thinking: Author Interview

As part of the 2019 special issue ‘Design Thinking for Education’ in the DeGruyter open access journal ‘Open Education Studies’ the author quartet Gnanaharsha Beligatamulla, Janice Rieger, Jill Franz, and Megan Strickfaden present a qualitative study investigating educators experience of design thinking pedagogy in the higher education context. Design thinking is a concept within education that has been discussed in the academic spheres for more than 30 years, and has recently become popular in academic research and practice. It is not only important to conduct research on the students’ experiences of design thinking, but also the educators’ experience. In the interview, they talk about open access, the implications of their research, and their experiences using design thinking