The “Collaboration†of 5C Model in Creative Design Education

Abstract

The demands in higher education are on the rise. Charged with teaching more content, increased enthusiasm of the students and engaging students, educators face multiple challenges. The 5C model is a theory that developed in an educational context by design thinking, knowledge production, and learning. This model would give students a standard thinking mode to solve a problem, and make a strategy of design. It more looks like a design process, which leads students to follow and do. The process including Collection, Comprehension, Concepts, Creation, and with Collaborate in the middle to illustrate that collaboration is important in each of the categories. In this article, through the undergraduate degree course of interaction design by Changshu Institute of Technology, students are required to collaborate to complete the brief projects, such as results of onsite observations, interviews and analyses of creations. To define how “collaboration†affects design process. The results of this study can be used as basic data for co-design education and can contribute to the expansion of visual communication design educational methods.