From: The Positive Space Blog
http://www.personaldesigndegree.com
Great strides have been made towards teaching web development, but what about design? The personal web design degree is an open education curriculum that teaches both beginning web designers and seasoned print designers design within the context of the web.
The personal web design degree is the response of one designer to the question “What do I need to study to become a web designer?” The truth is that all the information needed to obtain a functional knowledge of web design is out there just waiting to be read. The only thing stopping most designers from doing so is sifting through all the information and knowing what is worth reading.
Just the Beginning
Each section of the curriculum consists of the following elements:
- A Reading List
- Related Articles
- Key Concepts
- A Study Guide
- A Review Quiz
As it currently stands the project needs a number of articles that help reinforce the skills outlined within each level of the curriculum. The skills to be covered within the levels of the curriculum are listed on the curriculum overview page or in my previous article “The State of Online Web Design Education.”
If you would like to help out please share links to some trustworthy articles on the skills covered in each of the curriculum levels. You can either post in the comments below, both which section you believe the article belongs in and a link to it, or visit the community forums of and post it there.
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I'm starting to have mixed feelings about all this. On one level, it's great. My hippy leaning, community driven, creative commons/open source supporting side is ecstatic. For one thing, poorly performing "official" degree programs have little excuse to remain poorly performing with the community doing so much of the leg work. Surely you can pick and choose the strongest elements from all these community driven curricula and manage to both stay current and meet accreditation requirements.
But the flip side to that is at what point do these programs become yet another way to present self motivated learners to get to information overload?
I see where you are coming from Derek. I think no matter what the method is it must include mentorship to manage the possibility of information overload. Hopefully the community that can grow around this will support that.
Yeah, I'm digging the idea of apprenticeship in the industry. But I've already rambled on a bit about that in various comments at ALA. I'm still waiting for either the web design community or the higher education industry to pick up the ball on that front.
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