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Attending HCD-Net (Human Centred Design) Kansai-Branch Seminar (1)

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I attended the above mentioned seminar on 23 June.  The venue was at MOTEX Inc., near Shin-Osaka Station, Osaka. I am going to talk about the seminar and thoughts during the seminar. 1. Seminar on service design   The seminar topic was service design. Dr. Hasegawa presented the foundation, application and its latest trend for service design during the seminar. At beginning, he talked about chronological trend for commodities.  Initially the era of manufacturing came first.  Then eras of distribution, information and customers come in order. In other words, while technique for manufacturing commodities is developed more and more, preference from customers have changed. Customers used to be satisfied with just commodities themselves in the early 20th century . Later supply could be made properly and customers pay attention to distribution, e.g. accurate delivery. Anywhere consumers obtained commodities with same quality. Then information became more import

Again Rethinking about Rubrics (1)

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1.   Introduction As I posted t he creation of a rubric in the previous time, I would like to argue rubrics from viewpoints of a participatory approach in detail. This is because it is hard to find participatory approach from the net despite the fact that there is much reference about rubrics.     2. Aims of Rubrics Teachers usually create rubrics. As described in much literature, rubrics are grading or scoring tools to show performance expectations from teachers' sides. Rubrics shown in Fig.1 are kinds of matrixes from dimensions and performance levels. Fig. 1: Form of rubrics Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Dimension 1 Desc. 1.1. Desc. 2.1. Dimension 2 Desc. 1.3. Dimension 3 Examples of dimensions are presentation, communications, etc.  In short, the dimensions come from discomposed overall goal.  Performance levels mean degrees of achieveme

Creation of a rubric

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In the classes, students created a rubric for Practice II. 1. Preparation Prior to the classes, I thought about appropriate approaches to create a rubric for students.  If I asked the students to create a rubric from beginning, it would be time-consuming. I presumably need more explanation to create.  I expect that they spend one session (90 min) in creating the rubric for the Practice.  So I think I would better to show logic model firstly as shown in the following figure. Then I construct the rubric from the logic model. The rubric is actually matrix. Items in X axis (horizontal axis) are degrees of achievements.  Y axis also drives from elements, which are  decomposed  from the logic model.  During the class, I will explain the logic model, X and Y axis in the rubric respectively. I constructed incomplete one. Partially, in short, I fill in the matrix in the rubric. I anticipate what kinds of difficulties they have. I think, this can be an effective and efficient way