- From: Adrian Roselli <Roselli@algonquinstudios.com>
- Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:17:46 -0500
- To: Helen Kennedy <H.Kennedy@leeds.ac.uk>, <public-webed@w3.org>
Helen, I am a professional who guest lectures at 5 local colleges and universities, and sits on the advistory committee for the programs at two of them, along with involvement at the high school level. If it helps, I agree that web devs are often critical of the education available. I have taken the approach that all these programs should be feeders to my company -- that ideally I want these programs to produce students I want to hire. It helps inform the feedback I give when I speak at the classes and when I help with curriculum questions. I think your research idea is interesting and I'd be interested in applying your research locally, I would also love to see what programs involve full-time professionals and what their level of involvement is. Can that be included in your research? Does that sound like it might have value to you? Or anyone else here? _________________________ Adrian Roselli -----Original Message----- From: Helen Kennedy [mailto:H.Kennedy@leeds.ac.uk] Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 9:51 AM Hello web education group I'm an academic in the UK who has been researching web design for some time, as well as teaching it and doing it now and again. I'm interested in researching the state of web design education in the UK in 2012, and Chris Mills suggested that I should post to the list to let everyone know my plans and thoughts. In my experience, field leading web designers are often critical of web design education, and their criticisms are often based on their own experiences, or the experiences of friends and fellow web designers. It seems to me that in order to be able to comment accurately on the state of web design education, we should research it, find out where it is being taught, in what kinds of departments, by what kinds of people with what kinds of experiences, and what kinds of things constitute the curriculum. We should find out the extent to which web standards and web accessibility are integral to the web design curriculum. These are some of the things that I'm hoping to explore through a small-scale research project, probably focused on some UK countries in the first instance. If anyone is interested in knowing more, drop me a line. I'll update the list when I get things under way. Helen Dr Helen Kennedy Senior Lecturer in New Media, Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds
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