Designing digital workspaces for creativity and collaboration in online project-based courses

May 18, 2020

In response to Covid-19, we developed an environment to bring project-based work online in two very different courses: a middle school robotics course and a university product design studio. In the process, we’ve discovered new strategies to support collaboration, foster creativity, and make student thinking visible. This post includes learnings gleaned from both of these environments.

Written by Rosa Weinberg (member of the teaching team for Product and Experience Design at Harvard University), Yusuf Ahmad (graduate researcher in the MIT Media Lab’s Lifelong Kindergarten group), and David Alsdorf (faculty member at the Acera School).

MIT Media Lab