Powerful Learning Environments: A Guide to Designing Innovation Labs

The RUAS Honors Program aims to encourage students to develop into excellent professionals. To do so, RUAS has developed a competence profile entitled Learning to Innovate. This profile serves as a guide for designing a teaching approach which enables students to actively develop into such professio...

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Main Authors: Ineke Miltenburg, Ron Weerheijm
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Honors Council 2018-05-01
Series:Journal of the European Honors Council
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Online Access:https://jehc.eu/index.php/jehc/article/view/5
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Summary:The RUAS Honors Program aims to encourage students to develop into excellent professionals. To do so, RUAS has developed a competence profile entitled Learning to Innovate. This profile serves as a guide for designing a teaching approach which enables students to actively develop into such professionals. There are five crucial characteristics for designing learning environments which challenge students to master the said competence profile: a multidisciplinary issue drawn from actual practice; an authentic learning environment; professional excellence as both the aim and basis for assessment; qualified teachers setting high standards for their students; and working and learning in a Community of Learners made up of all those involved. In this paper, we first explain the essence of an Innovation Lab or I-lab. We then present some additional considerations and various different approaches to designing a powerful learning environment like the I-Lab.
ISSN:2543-2311
2543-232X