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Payap University · International College
Design Thinking for Metaskills Development Lab
设计思维与元技能发展实验室
A research laboratory for meta-skills. Design thinking makes them intentional, measurable, and sustainable. The standard is indexed scholarship, not a slogan on a wall.
- Meta-skills
- Design thinking
- Academic management
- AI literacy
- Teacherpreneurship
- Graduate readiness
- Empathy-to-execution
- Private higher education
Think
Adaptive Expertise
The capacity to meet a new academic problem without abandoning what is already known — to flex routines, not discard them.
Connect
Relational Dynamics
Leadership as a relationship: mentoring, faculty coordination, and the trust that lets Master’s and doctoral students work across a project.
Create
Creative Agility
Design thinking in motion — prototypes of curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment, tried before they are scaled.
Decide
Strategic Synthesis
Turning evidence, priorities, and constraints into a decision a school or a university can actually carry.
Index mapping
World-class callings
The lab maps its keywords onto the public education agendas of the OECD, UNESCO, UNICEF, and the World Bank. The marks below are the original ones, cut small and set only beside the agenda they name. They record a mapping. They are not a partnership.
OECDLearning CompassMeta-skills, graduate readiness, and what an assessment can actually show.
UNESCOFutures of educationCurriculum, pedagogy, and quality education designed as a system.
UNICEFSkills for every learnerTeacher capacity, equity, and readiness that is not kept for one tier.
World BankHuman capitalGovernance, institutional tiers, and reform a university can carry.
Shelf one
Three introductions
The department, the laboratory, and the teacherpreneurship brief. The founder film plays on the founder page.
01
Introduction
Department film
Payap EL: a meta-skills introduction
Why Educational Leadership at Payap puts meta-skills at the center of the graduate programs.
Direct play · 108 MB archive
02
Introduction
Laboratory announcement
Introducing the DTMS Lab
The seal’s film: design thinking, four domains, and the charge to innovate, learn, and empower.
Public launch cut about 4 min · 86 MB archive
04
Introduction
Research brief
Teacherpreneurship as a meta-skill
Why private universities must innovate, and how that leadership is distributed across academic roles.
Direct play · 97 MB archive
Shelf two
Four MOOC episodes
The Meta-skills course: the story, teacherpreneurship, AI-enabled assessment, and the current edge.
05
Episode
Meta-skills MOOC
Episode 1 — The Story of Meta-skills
From 2012 to the age of AI. Four domains, seventeen skills, one framework.
About 4:02 · 145 MB archive
06
Episode
Meta-skills MOOC
Episode 2 — Teacherpreneurship
What makes a teacher an innovator? Four domains, and 654 educators.
About 4:18 · 311 MB archive
07
Episode
Meta-skills MOOC
Episode 3 — AI-Enabled Assessment
Institutional culture, assessment, and whether students are actually ready. The pink science lab.
About 5:14 · 389 MB archive
08
Episode
Meta-skills MOOC
Episode 4
The fourth film in the archive, after the story, the teacher-innovator, and the assessment study.
Direct play · 413 MB archive
Scopus Q1 · highlighted
AI literacy paper
Che, C. (2026). AI literacy as a meta-skill: A four-domain model for academic management innovation in higher education. Frontiers in Education, 11, Article 1755238.
Founder
Dr. Chi Che
Head of Educational Leadership at Payap, and academic lead of this laboratory. The host record of the scholar — appointments, sixteen peer-reviewed articles, the review ledger — is drchiche.com. This site is the lab. That site is the person.
Open bench
Write with the lab
- Research collaboration
- Publications
- Book co-authorship
Five goals
SDG alignment
The same five goals named on drchiche.com. Each one is tied to a line of the published work, not to the agenda as a whole.
Quality Education
Curriculum, pedagogy, assessment, and academic leadership.
Decent Work and Economic Growth
Graduate readiness, meta-skills, and teacherpreneurship.
Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
AI literacy, design thinking, and academic-system innovation.
Reduced Inequalities
Private universities, institutional tiers, and education reform.
Partnerships for the Goals
Scholarly work across Thailand, China, Poland, and Myanmar.
Why the lab exists
Opened 26 October 2026
2012
Meta-skills named
2024–2025
The doctorate
2026
The evidence
26 October 2026
The opening