Cover Design by Cliff Hasham Improving Design Processes through Structured Reflection A Domain-independent Approach

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Capacities for the new world: Changing roles and responsibilities of educators and learners

Innovations in education need to be accelerated to address the grand challenges in our society more adequately. We indicate the need for more collaboration with external stakeholders and for self-reflection. We refer to Challenge-Based Learning, an educational concept developed in engineering education, as a step in transforming education in response to societal changes, where students develop new capacities and are empowered to gain more ownership of their own learning. We highlight the role of design and designers in developing the capacities needed by students and teachers, and detail the necessary changes in the role and responsibilities of learners and teachers

The Big Five Personality Traits and Individual Satisfaction With the Team

Relationships between team composition in terms of team members' Big Five personality traits and individual satisfaction with the team after project completion were researched. Questionnaires were filled out by 310 undergraduate students (N= 68 teams) working on an engineering design assignment. Individual satisfaction with the team was regressed onto individual, dissimilarity, and interaction scores. A positive main effect was found for individual agreeableness and emotional stability and for dissimilarity in conscientiousness. A moderation of the main effect of dissimilarity was found for extraversion: Satisfaction with the team is negatively related to dissimilarity to the other team members only for members low in extraversion