Ignite Roundtable - Session 4

The #Igniteroundtables 'Design Thinking & Maker Culture: Sticky Learning for the 21st Century' were held on Wednesday afternoons through April 2020 via Zoom, aiming to explore how we can leverage digital technologies and new methods of teaching to promote ‘sticky learning’ — learning that is retained well after it is taught. Session 4 - Guest Speakers Peter Knobloch—University of Applied Arts Vienna (Austria) Maker culture and industrial development and production processes — possibilities and limitations to improve the sustainability of products Vladimir Aleksic—University of Niš (Serbia) Story Maps and Open Education in the Flipped Classroom Esther Aminata Kamara—Maastricht University (the Netherlands) Digital Oral Histories: a Critical Look at the Practice of Preserving Oral Histories and How This May Reflect on Digital Humanities/learning Stefania Savva—Cyprus University of Technology (Cyprus) Design Thinking in Interactive Digital Narratives for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students: Museum-school Synergies in Museum Affinity spaces Chiara Zuanni & Franz Dörfler—University of Graz (Austria) DigiCulture: a MOOC for Creative Industries Professionals Nimrah Syed—Ontario College of Art & Design University (Canada) Embracing Design Thinking for Sustainable Fashion Our speakers covered subjects, such as digital innovation in teaching and learning in the humanities, flipped classroom teaching, maker culture as new forms of meaning-making and knowledge creation, how to prepare humanities students for a new labour market, and how can humanities knowledge take on and create solutions for global challenges while facilitating the digital transition of society. The digital roundtables explored these themes within the wider areas of education within the digital humanities, cultural studies, and the creative and cultural industries, both as part traditional educational curricula as well as lifelong learning.