Viryabo, a professional interior designer and an author at an education-related website Owlcation, offers a great overview of up and downsides of online education based on her own experiences in a piece called ‘Distance Education: Pros and Cons of Online Study’
Here is a story of successfully incorporating online learning into a traditional university course as told by Bill Gates in “This school proves that universities can be bigger and better“. He was invited to sit in on an anthropology course at University of Central Florida, and learnt “how it’s found a way to better serve its growing population of students, without compromising on quality or cost.”
Since 1992, UCF has managed to triple the size of its student body to 66,000 students while at the same time reducing costs, boosting its graduation rate, and expanding access for low-income and first-generation students. A key reason for UCF’s success is its focus on digital learning, which has allowed the university to meet the needs of its expanding student population and keep tuition costs low. About 80 percent of UCF students take at least one online course—compared with the national average of about 30 percent.
Talks and disputes about the quality of modern architecture education have been going on for a couple of years already.
A large section of the profession thinks that educators are failing at our sole task: to train students for practice. Patrik Schumacher, Zaha Hadid Architects principal and a guest professor at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard as well as the head of the Architectural Association’s Design Research Laboratory, criticized the existing approach to architecture schooling in his Facebook post entitled “13 theses on the crisis of architectural academia”.
Update: BOA added 28 online courses in Game Design and Cartoon Animation from Coursera.
BOA added 10 new videos on UX design and Graphic Design from Skillshare
