AIGA seeks active, dedicated educators and practitioners to provide service and leadership on its Design Educators Community Steering Committee. Nominations are now being accepted for three-year positions starting August 1, 2012. The committee seeks five new members. Minimum qualifications for consideration to the AIGA Design Educators Steering Committee include: experience teaching visual communication or graphic [...]
At the Design Educators Conference at Pivot, Stacie Rohrbach, Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Design, led a very interactive and informative workshop on the ‘A-word’ — Assessment. Rohrbach invited her workshop participants to rethink how, why and what we assess. She discussed how evaluation processes can cause students to become overly focused [...]
In October, Meredith Davis, director of graduate programs in graphic design at North Carolina State University, led a workshop entitled “Designing Flexible Curricula” as part of the Design Educators Conference at Pivot, which consisted of various educator workshops, roundtables and affinity sessions that were part of Pivot: AIGA Design Conference in Phoenix this past October. Davis’s popular workshop inspired participants [...]
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