CREATING DISTANCE DESIGN COURSES
What is it?
This guide has been created to support design educators preparing to (re)create courses for new cohorts of students. It offers guidance, suggestions and ideas around common elements found in distance courses, case studies and research.
This guide has been created to support design educators preparing to (re)create courses for new cohorts of students. It offers guidance, suggestions and ideas around common elements found in distance courses, case studies and research.
Who is it for?
Design educators/instructors.
Design educators/instructors.
What can it do?
The guide follows the ‘structure’ of a generic distance and online design course over time, comprising:
The guide follows the ‘structure’ of a generic distance and online design course over time, comprising:
- Priors: The knowledge, expertise and assumptions brought to the course
- Spine: Some organising and support structure and system
- Induction: Ways, cultures and indoctrinations of working and thinking
- Course: The elements that make up the actual activity and material
- Outputs: The expectations and outcomes from the course
How do I access it?
Distance Design Education
Distance Design Education (2021). Creating distance design courses. Retrieved from https://distancedesigneducation.com/creating-distance-design-courses/ (accessed 10 September 2021).
Jones, D. (2020). Creating distance design courses: A guide for educators. Version 0.9. Retrieved from https://distancedesigneducation.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/cddc_guide_0-9.pdf (accessed 10 September 2021).