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| Abstract : Perpustakaan Tuanku Bainun |
| Higher education academics are lacking the knowledge on how to implement Design
Thinking for transdisciplinary design studies that would produce Fourth Industrial
Revolution Workforce Skills (4IRSkills), due to the sparsity in literature and
implementation guidelines. This research aims to develop a Teaching and Learning
Framework (TLF) for transdisciplinary design studies with a desktop-based Virtual
Reality Learning Environment (VRLE) simulation of studio-based learning. The TLF
builds on Selander’s Learning Design Sequence (LDS) with the embedded Design
Thinking process complemented with social constructivist pedagogies of project-based
and situated studio-based learning. The study employed a sequential explanatory
mixed-method approach with triangulation protocols to examine the effectiveness of
the TLF with VRLE on 30 undergraduate transdisciplinary students. A quasiexperiment
was conducted on a control and treatment group over two different fully
online academic semesters. The control group experienced a generic project design
and management process while the treatment group was exposed to the TLF with
VRLE. The data was analysed using the Mann-Whitney, independent t-test, Pearson
correlation test, thematic analysis and convergent coding matrix triangulation protocol.
The findings indicated that the TLF with VRLE showed a positive and significant
relationship with students' achievement of 4IRSkills. The TLF Design Process and
Collaborative Design variables were positively correlated with students' 4IRSkills, while
there was no correlation for the VRLE Representational Fidelity and Learner
Interaction variables. Students’ gender and technical competencies were confirmed as
non-moderators in the achievement of 4IRSkills. The TLF with VRLE proves to be an
effective and suitable method for guiding the implementation of pedagogies that
teaches 4IRSkills at the tertiary level in fully online learning environments.
Furthermore, its application could develop the body of knowledge in LDS, contributing
to the development of transdisciplinary design studies that produces 4IRSkills at higher
education level. |
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