Designing Makerspaces for Higher Education: Theoretical and Design Implications

• In Event: D&D - Technology Integration

Short Description

Makerspaces have been a topic of great interest in education realms. The design of makerspaces in higher education is gaining attention, as they can provide new learning opportunities to students through learning-by-making. This proposal suggests three key theoretical constructs to consider in makerspaces research (i.e. Constructionism; Educational Affordances; and Distributed Cognition) and provides research and design implications accordingly.

Authors

• Gi Woong Choi, The Pennsylvania State University

• Susan Land