News from FEB Usakti :

INHOUSE TRAINING “DESIGN THINKING APPROACH FOR BETTER OUTCOME OF CAP LEARNING (COGNITIVE, AFFECTIVE, PSYCHOMOTOR)”

FEB Usakti organized an inhouse tranining entitled: “Design Thinking Approach for Better Outcome of CAP Learning (Cognitive, Affective, Psychomotor)” with the instructor Maria R Nindita Radyati, PhD, Executive Director of CECT Universitas Trisakti. The objective of the inhouse training is to help lecturers to implement the curriculum that is oriented towards collaborative learning and problem solving. The inhouse training was organized by the Excellence Class Program of Usakti FEB, and attended by lecturers of FEB Usakti. This event was held on Friday, January 8, 2020, from 08.30 to 11.30 through a zoom meeting.

The training was opened by Dr. Husna Leila Yusran, MM as the 1st Vice Dean at FEB Usakti. She said that in education it is very important to maintain the harmony between “head” for “Cognitive”, as it is related to intellectual capacity, “heart” for “Affective” because it is related to emotional aspect and “hands” for “Psychomotor” since it is related to aspect of skills. The moderator was Dr. Wahyuningsih, ME, MPhils.

Maria R Nindita, PhD explained that Design Thinking is a philosophy and way of thinking which can be practiced in everyday life, hence it will become a habit of creative thinking for problem solutions. In the sphere of teaching and learning methods, Design Thinking helps the students in the process of problems identification, emphatizing with other people’s problems, being creative in come up with ideas which are generated from human-centered approach, and linking the related theories with alternative solutions. Design thinking apporach can contribute significantly to enhance the outcome of three dimensions of learning, i.e.: cognitive, affective and psychomotor.

In the training, the participants were divided into ten breakout-rooms based on their area of specialties, in order to come up with some ideas of applying this design thinking approach into their teaching method. Maria then asked volunteers to present the results of their discussions. According to Maria the the results were beyond expectations where, most of them were creative and innovative by linking their area of expertise with design thinking method. Further Maria explained, from the messages written in the ‘Chat’ in Zoom, it was apparent that the lecturers seemed enthusiastic, happy and optimistic that design thinking can certainly help them teach more effectively and enhance students’ curiosity.

According to Maria, online teaching is very challenging, because it is difficult to get students’ attention and engagement. Hence by using Design Thinking approach it is expected that students interests and engagement as well as outcome of the learning can be enhanced.

The News are modifed in collaboration with CECT, from the original source, i.e.: Wakil Dekan I/ Kelas Unggulan FEB USAKTI