This study explores an experiential learning approach in basic design education by integrating observations of the real world to improve students' learning motivation, self-efficacy, and performance. A quasi-experiment with 28 first-year industrial design students used a single-group pre- and post-t…
Learning through projects is a common feature in practice-based design education. While theory and case-based literature on problem-based learning abounds, the project methods more familiar to design education are rarely defined in practical curriculum development terms. This paper outlines a study …