"What is Design Thinking and Why Is It Important?"

Recently, Rim Razzouk, a recent PhD graduate of the IS program, and Valerie Shute published their article "What is Design Thinking and Why Is It Important" in the September 2012 issue of Review of Educational Research. According to the authors, Design Thinking is defined as "Design thinking is generally defined as an analytic and creative process that engages a person in opportunities to experiment, create and prototype models, gather feedback, and redesign."

You may find the article abstract at http://rer.sagepub.com/content/82/3/330.abstract.
You can find more about the journal at http://rer.sagepub.com/ 

Dr. Klein Ranked Fourth for His Contribution to PIQ Journal

The article: Performance Improvement Quarterly 2001 – 2010 included in the latest issue of Educational Technology (September - October, 2012) has listed our faculty member – Dr. James Klein - as tied for fourth place for having the most articles published in Performance Improvement Quarterly for the past ten years. Congratulations Dr. Klein! 

 

You can find more about Dr. Klein's reserach interests and publications from his personal website: http://myweb.fsu.edu/jklein/

 

 

 

Call for Articles: Games and simulations in social sciences education

Academic Exchange Quarterly <http://www.rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/index.htm>


Summer 2012, Volume 16, Issue 2


Expanded issue up to 400+ pages.

Articles on various topics plus the following special section: Games and simulations in social sciences education

Feature Editor:

Maria Mavrommati

PhD Program Leader, Lecturer
AKMI Metropolitan College

Thessaloniki, Greece <http://www.amc.edu.gr/>


mariamavrommath@gmail.com

Focus:

The proposed issue will focus on electronic games and simulations applications in the social sciences classroom. Strategies and methods of teaching history, sociology, cultural studies, economics, philosophy, political science etc. in primary, secondary or tertiary education settings with the use of computer games is of primary interest to this special issue. We welcome papers on theoretical as well as practical research on the field.

Who May Submit: 

Submissions by academic and independent researchers, graduate students,<http://rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/rufengs.htm> teachers, games and simulations industry etc. Please identify your submission with keyword: GAMES



Article submission deadline: End of February 2012

See details for other deadline options like early, regular, and short. <http://www.rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/rufen1.htm#date> 

Early submission offers an opportunity to be considered for Editors' Choice<http://www.rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/edchoice.htm>



Submission Procedure:


http://rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/rufen1.htm