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The Impact of Competition-Based Learning on Enhancing Students’ Motivation, Engagement and Professionalism: A Case Study of Fashion Design Undergraduates in Hong Kong

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In today’s competitive environment, an organization’s ability to design innovative solutions and products has become a critical driver for product differentiation and thereby organizational competitiveness. Design is a process of solving real-life problems often in collaboration with professionals in relevant fields. Design is conceived as a process of solving an ill-structured problem, which possesses multiple solutions, multiple solution paths, fewer parameters and uncertainty about what it takes to reach a solution.

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We thank Danny HO, Assistant Professor at the Hang Seng University of Hong Kong, and Winton AU, Associate Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong for valuable comments that greatly improved the manuscript, and the anonymous reviewers of this paper.

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Chan, F., Cheung, J.L., Chan, E.M.H. (2020). The Impact of Competition-Based Learning on Enhancing Students’ Motivation, Engagement and Professionalism: A Case Study of Fashion Design Undergraduates in Hong Kong. In: Hong, C., Ma, W. (eds) Applied Degree Education and the Future of Work. Lecture Notes in Educational Technology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3142-2_16

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