I believe that at a graduate level, online design education should be possible online. Many people will be going back for a masters degree after several years working in the industry and already have a foundation built. Yes, being able to collaborate in person is an experience that cannot be replicated, however, that is something many of us are used to at work as well. So many companies have teams collaborating across cities, states, and across the globe. Learning remotely supports the education of designing on a cross-cultural team and collaborating with people via email, content management systems, and video conferencing.
Several years back, I both attended and worked for SCAD. When they introduced online learning, I signed up for a few courses and my experience was only slightly different from the classroom experience. Yes, there wasn't any face-time with students and professors, but I actually spent more time communicating with them via email and AIM and found the experience more positively challenging than in an in-person class. Later I went to CMU and took an online course in the software engineering department, and while not a design studio class, I felt the same about that experience as I had about the SCAD experience. For people who are already experienced in the discipline, I'm all for online education. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=37349 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
