Empathise
The following steps will you help empathise with your target audience, the most efficient forms of user-engagement to ensure your problem-based learning journey yields effective results:
1. Attend This initial step of Problem-based learning (PBL) gets students to empathise with their chosen topic by observing how users interact with their environment. This step enables you to gain important insights as to what the Indian community thinks, feels, and most importantly, what they need. For example, relating to clean water and sanitation (Goal 6 of the UNSDG), is there a lot of waste in the community, and how do users think and feel about this? Is there adequate water sanitation, and if not, how does the community feel? 2. Engage By engaging with users directly – interaction and interviews – students will be able to uncover deeper insights into their beliefs and values.
3. Immerse By immersing yourself in your users’ experience, you will find (or be able to create, if necessary) yourself in specific environments to directly understand what group or community your designing a solution for. Problem-based learning is designed to reveal the best solutions through insights into human behaviour – discover the emotions that drive user behaviour. Uncover user needs (which they may or not already be aware of) and identify the right users to apply your solution. Consider how you have empathised with the situation or how the idea has resonated with you and how you feel it can connect to your life.
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Example:
Target 6.A –
By 2030, expand international cooperation and capacity-building support to developing countries in water and sanitation related activities and programmes, including water harvesting, desalination, water efficiency, wastewater treatment, and recycling and re-use technologies.
Local Issues:
School, community, and household water issues
How is water being used on daily basis?
What can we do to conserve water?
How could we recycle water?
How much water is used and how can this be controlled?
Click here to see detailed examples of key targets for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
By 2030, expand international cooperation and capacity-building support to developing countries in water and sanitation related activities and programmes, including water harvesting, desalination, water efficiency, wastewater treatment, and recycling and re-use technologies.
Local Issues:
School, community, and household water issues
How is water being used on daily basis?
What can we do to conserve water?
How could we recycle water?
How much water is used and how can this be controlled?
Click here to see detailed examples of key targets for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.