Cultivating and Nurturing an Empathy-Ready Mindset Through Value-Based Innovation

Abstract

The Social Innovation Project focuses on developing and implementing innovative solutions to impact students and the community positively. In this module, students are engaged in an interdisciplinary and collaborative setting to identify opportunities in today's global and local environments that create and capture values. The project-based learning activities for this module emphasize situated learning, which deals with authentic and unique real-world issues. Students will be involved in collaborative decision-making and problem-solving as they have to discuss, consult, collaborate, and solve the problem to provide services or create a product for the desired community. After taking this module, students are able to enhance their creativity and instill values, such as leadership, teamwork, communication, and interpersonal skills, among students through the completion of the group's project.