This entry will be quite short. Not because I’m tired of writing or have blanked out, but because this is an area that I really need to discover more. When I was designing the GD curriculum I was barely aware of different models used in graphic design programs. At that time I didn’t spen[...]
Archive for November, 2007
November 18th, 2007 - 7:08 am § in Teaching & Learning
Realizations: Graphic Design Program design
As I was going through all this reflection and trying to dig really deep in what I did in my design I came to point where I realized that the actual program that I had put together was not built for the type of students enrolling at the school. Because of the variety in the [...][...]
November 18th, 2007 - 6:14 am § in Teaching & Learning
Assessment in Graphic Design Learning Experiences
Reflections from the conference paper “Using Assessment to Engage Graphic design Students in their Learning Experience”, Debra Ehmann, Swinburne University of Technology. This paper generally discusses how the use of assessment in graphic design pedagogy can help create a link between a [...]
November 17th, 2007 - 8:47 am § in Teaching & Learning
Educational Concepts for Design Lecturers
In this paper Darrall Thompson from UTS, Sydney discusses the design of learning environments for design courses. It is particularly interesting to me in this stage of my research because it touches on some approaches to learning which might have been helpful when I was designing a graphic design cu[...]
November 16th, 2007 - 2:12 am § in Teaching & Learning
Why? do I believe these are essential ingredients to the program
Thinking about the courses now, maybe they were too heavily based on North American graphic design courses. I was trying to essentially build a four year program in a private study-abroad college where students enrolled for usually not more than one semester. Why would a student coming from an art c[...]
November 16th, 2007 - 2:07 am § in Research Progress
This is Killing me
At the start of this process, I thought I was doing fine, reflecting, writing, thinking. At this stage I think I have only completed three or four blog posts and have spent most of the time starring at the blogger window. I have been think too but for some reason, this is getting more an [...][...]
November 15th, 2007 - 4:31 am § in Teaching & Learning
The Essential Ingredients of a Graphic Design Program
During the planning of the graphic design program I tried to condense as much as I could from what knowledge I had of a four year North American program to a one year study abroad program. I decided on courses that I thought where essential in the learning process of a design student. Ingredients #1[...]
November 15th, 2007 - 2:46 am § in Teaching & Learning
Surface and Deep learning Environments
Paul Ramsden in his research on Learning to teach in Higher education explored the relationships between the engagement of students learning experiences and those providing the experience in an educational context. What is meant by this is there are two levels of engagement with the leaning and thin[...]
November 13th, 2007 - 5:37 am § in Research Progress
Curriculum Research
In the midst of my proposal for the new graphic design program one of my main ideas was to introduce an element of research into the curriculum. Thinking back now, at the time I really threw myself into research and especially design research. I was at the time discovering myself what it all meant a[...]
November 13th, 2007 - 1:30 am § in Research Progress
Protected: Private study-abroad art colleges
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