Dear Stephen,
Cumulus 2016 in Hong Kong had one chapter dedicated to education.
I am sharing the proceedings.
You can find our paper on 84
The states of openness: an educational perspective on
design practices
cumulus_hong_kong_2016_working_papers_final.pdf
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B893i4blwct0UVZyNjI0dVVKLUE/view?usp=drive_web>
Best
Avşar
On 11 August 2017 at 09:44, Stephen B Allard <[log in to unmask]>
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> 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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