Dear Design scholars...
I hope your summers are going well.
I've been teaching design related coursework in South Korea for 10 years now, and have witnessed wide sweeping changes to education policy that are now included my teaching efforts at the undergraduate level.
What I am curious to know from you is if there are any design conferences that address specifically the impact of internet, communications and information technology upon the student population relative to the generations that now are now matriculated in associates, bachelors and masters degree design programs. We are now witnessing a new kind of student who's mindsets and motivations are completely different due to information technology's impact on daily life and its change in behavior. Old skillsets are being discarded and new skillsets are being given precedent. It is becoming increasingly difficult to judge what knowledge and skills are relevant for the future of design education. Some clarity and perspective is now necessary on this issue from the scholar level.
Government education ministries are now armed with all manner of data base tools to measure the education process and its outcomes. What I am seeing however is no attention to how all of this new technology has changed the student who is at the center of all of this new measurement. Are there any design conferences that address this issue of new student mindset/psychology/motivation?
Any replies and resources from all corners of the globe are appreciated. This is a new an emerging issue that is beginning to gain momentum in design education circles that I frequent.
Cheers from Seoul,
Stephen Bourgogne Allard
https://designsymbiosisblog.wordpress.com/
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