Online education is becoming the norm in higher education. Effective instructional design methods are required to ensure that “ever-connected” students’ needs are being met. One potential method is design thinking: an agile methodology that stresses the importance of empathy with the student. The #OpenTeach fully online course was designed using design thinking principles and delivered in Spring 2020. This article reports on a case study which focused on the use of design thinking to design and develop the #OpenTeach course. The five iterative stages of design thinking (empathy, define, ideate, prototype and test) were integrated into the design and development of the course materials. The findings of this study indicate that the use of the design thinking process may be used by instructional designers to achieve empathy with their learners, which will ensure learners successfully engage and achieve the learning objectives of the course. Implications for practice or policy: A rich case study of the successful integration of design thinking within the instructional design methodology of an online teacher education project is valuable to educationalists who wish to follow a user-cntred empathetic approach. Instructional designers should focus on empathising with their student cohort to successfully engage students in the content that has been designed, and developed, as part of an online course.

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将设计思维融入教学设计：#OpenTeach 案例研究

在线教育正在成为高等教育的常态。需要有效的教学设计方法来确保满足“永远联系在一起”的学生的需求。一种潜在的方法是设计思维：一种强调与学生同理心的重要性的敏捷方法。#OpenTeach 完全在线课程是使用设计思维原则设计的，并于 2020 年春季交付。本文报告了一个案例研究，该案例研究侧重于使用设计思维来设计和开发#OpenTeach 课程。设计思维的五个迭代阶段（移情、定义、构思、原型和测试）被整合到课程材料的设计和开发中。本研究的结果表明，教学设计师可以使用设计思维过程来实现对学习者的同理心，这将确保学习者成功参与并实现课程的学习目标。对实践或政策的启示：在在线教师教育项目的教学设计方法中成功整合设计思维的丰富案例研究对于希望遵循以用户为中心的移情方法的教育家来说是有价值的。作为在线课程的一部分，教学设计师应该专注于与他们的学生群体产生共鸣，以成功地让学生参与到设计和开发的内容中。对于希望遵循以用户为中心的移情方法的教育家来说，一个关于将设计思维成功整合到在线教师教育项目的教学设计方法中的丰富案例研究是有价值的。作为在线课程的一部分，教学设计师应该专注于与他们的学生群体产生共鸣，以成功地让学生参与到设计和开发的内容中。对于希望遵循以用户为中心的移情方法的教育家来说，一个关于将设计思维成功整合到在线教师教育项目的教学设计方法中的丰富案例研究是有价值的。作为在线课程的一部分，教学设计师应该专注于与他们的学生群体产生共鸣，以成功地让学生参与到设计和开发的内容中。