The Study on Differences between Students’ and Teachers’ Perceptions of Undergraduate Industrial Design Core Course

Design is one of the important capabilities of enterprise transformation from OEM to ODM/OBM and success. It is important to educate the excellent designer for the industry. The core courses is the most important in industrial design education that students integrate and practice the knowledge and skills learned from surrounding courses. The main pedagogy of industrial design core course is studio. The interaction and communication are main activities to learn designing. Students and teachers are the main stakeholders in a learning system. Students and teachers have their own perceptions of education. Congruent perceptions contribute to optimal teaching-learning processes and help to achieve best learning outcomes. The purpose of this study is to investigate the students’ and teachers’ perception of industrial design core course, and to explore the relationship and influences between them. This study will take 2 years. In the first year, the focus group interview will use to collect the data from students and teachers to identify and classify the factors of learning and teaching perception. The framework will be formulated according the qualitative data. The second year will collect the data with questionnaire that designed according the first year’s results. The quantitative data will used to verify the framework. And to understand students’ and teachers’ perception of the core course. The relationship between students and teachers and the influences of the learning-teaching process and outcome also will be explored. The results of this study can deepen the understanding of the industrial design education and provide a reference for students’ learning and teachers’ teaching. The results also can be reference for further study.

Project ID:PE10406-0768
External Project ID:MOST104-2410-H182-018