minphf's design site: Quick note on online Education - Art & Design Education

minphf's design site: Quick note on online Education - Art & Design Education


http://www.academyart.edu/

http://online.academyart.edu/

http://minphf.blogspot.com/2009/04/some-web-20-fun-interactive-media.html

Quick note on online Education - Art & Design Education

In the last post I've mentioned about online education. There are several colleges which are conducting online degree programs, notably the university of Wisconsin and the University of Illinois in the US. There are a long list of them online, most in the US and some off from the UK. However recently, I've stumbled upon this course by the Academy of Art University based in California appears to be the most successful online art & design college I've found that is very credible.

However there has always been debates on how effective online teaching for design education is concerned. It appears to break new ground in art and design education as far as I've seen online. I will have a further nose in when I have the time. I am curious how they conduct the lessons there. It is possible to use current Web 2.0 technology to run webinars and conduct tutorials and lectures. What I am interested to know is how they exactly run the workshop and labs.

Some Web 2.0 fun - Interactive media

Welcome to your online stick family! At least if you would prefer some social bits of imagination with a good sense of humor, you may like to have a go at this online program. Rethinking the idea of the interactive media is a new way how Web 2.0 technologies would work. Virtual sites we move and adapt with the internet, many more of us will integrate virtual lives with real ones. such as Second Life brings people together, but in a more imagineered worlds that perhaps cannot be achieved in real ones.

Or perhaps for businesses where new interactive media is constantly changing our interface with our customers via our computers. We can now redesign how and what we want to interact with our clients and choose to distribute to where ever we want online and even to other forms of social media. On commercial grounds, it breaks down boundaries and brings in more business with a much more playful and personal touch. New media art, interactive advertising, mobile telephony are just some of the more common ways of online interaction for commercial success.

Lastly, in areas of education, where instruction designers plan teaching materials to be delivered to students. However there are pros and cons about such e-learning. See reference : 'Designing and Developing for the Disciplines' by Stuart Lee of Oxford University's Learning Technologies group.

We have a world of social networking. But then again how do we use them to benefit our lives is the real question.

OT-revamped site with discussion area

I've just revamped this site all over and added in a discussion hall over at Wordpress. Reason for this is because the process of signing up to comment and discuss is more convenient over there. I've grouped up all the blogger blogs there for my different blog readers to gather and interact in the same area. I've yet to see how effective this is. But at least, quick shot notes of all the blogger notes can be posted there along with any necessary replies. Instead of gissing-guessing around, I might as well try it out.

'Discuss Here' is placed on the navigation tabs on top of the blog posts. It should be easy to spot. Trying this plan of mine out for now.