BE OPEN: Why Design Graduates Are Crucial to High-tech Industries of Today 10 April 2022 Have you ever thought what you are going to do after you get your degree in design? Despite the generally accepted misconception, design graduates are not at all limited to career paths within the artistic sector. It may not seem obvious but companies like Google and IBM rely on design… Read more →
BE OPEN: What is a value of Multidisciplinary Design? 25 March 2022 In the article “Sharpen Your Skills: The Value of Multidisciplinary Design” designer Peter Varadi mentions that designers only benefit their careers when they dare to venture beyond boundaries of their own disciplines. ‘Learning about different methods, tools, and skills’ he goes on, ‘helps broaden our internal problem-solving libraries and provides us with… Read more →
BE OPEN: Multidisciplinary Approach in Design Education 5 March 2022 As Alain de Botton, British philosopher and author, once stated, ‘problems that people have in advanced societies, that show up in novels, poetry, the therapist’s couch are really problems of architecture’. In other words, nowadays design has grown to be a major discipline that describes the process of shaping how… Read more →
BE OPEN: Pros and Cons of Mobile Learning 27 February 2022 Mobile learning is getting prevalent in today’s world. It is the result of the ever-changing era of the digital world. But, everything has two sides. There are some pros and cons of mobile learning. Mobile learning is very prevalent in the current scenario. Mobile learning is also known as mLearning… Read more →
BE OPEN: Jack of All Trades. Specialization in Design Education 5 February 2022 The role of designers nowadays has changed significantly, as design simultaneously both broadens and specializes. On the one hand, it grows to be more interdisciplinary, designers finding themselves within unexpected industries; while on the other hand, the number of design fields is so vast, it is not enough to make… Read more →
BE OPEN: How Adolescents Will Benefit from an Art and Design Education 28 January 2022 Many students wonder whether art and design education is right for them. It’s understandable: Art in education is regrettably not as glorified as science courses. At the same time, many people pursue career options without taking art and design into consideration. On the other hand, did you know that art… Read more →
BE OPEN: Microlearning – when the size matters 8 January 2022 In a world where people are checking their smartphones 9 times an hour, competition for learner’s attention is extra fierce. According to KnowledgeGuru, recent learning trends such as mobile, gamification, game-based learning, performance support, use of learning science and interactive video are all attempts to capture learner attention and engage them… Read more →
BE OPEN: Universities vs MOOCs – Pros and Cons 26 December 2021 The thing is that today when we speak about a degree as a means to build a career, we speak about university rankings and well-known university brands rather than about actual level of skills development. For example, it is often the case that graduating from Harvard does not really say… Read more →
BE OPEN: Future of Higher Education – Universities or MOOCs? 10 December 2021 One of the interesting facts about higher education during the pandemic: last year, when we saw traditional enrollments in higher education decline, enrollments in non-traditional providers – such as Coursera, EdX and other massive open online courses (MOOCs) – boomed. Does that mean the learning paradigm will be changed forever?… Read more →
BE OPEN: What Is Instagram’s Place in Design Education? 23 November 2021 To many, social media and education may seem like unlikely bedfellows. Formal design education is mostly localized, taking place inside of institution walls. It’s an opportunity to study, learn, experiment, and grow, and to do so within a community that can provide critical feedback. By contrast, Instagram is global, instant,… Read more →
BE OPEN: the Future of Education as seen by UNESCO’s Special Commission and nine ideas for post-COVID action 6 November 2021 The global health pandemic has shined a harsh light on the vulnerabilities and challenges humanity faces. It has provided a clear picture of existing inequalities—and a clearer picture of what steps forward we need to take, chief among them addressing the education of more than 1.5 billion students whose learning… Read more →
BE OPEN: Ingrained Assumptions that Challenge Higher Education 24 October 2021 How best to adapt to today’s post-Golden Age realities, according to professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin Steven Mintz. Seven years ago, Clay Shirky, who is now NYU’s vice provost of educational technologies, wrote a provocative and prescient blog post, which argued that higher education’s biggest challenges… Read more →
BE OPEN: Zoom in Higher Education 11 October 2021 With the COVID-19 speeding up the shift of higher education online, it might seem that the golden era of online education has finally come. However, while some educators sing praise of Zoom lectures and are going to keep this tool in their teaching kit even when the crisis is… Read more →
BE OPEN: How the Pandemic Changed Higher Education 29 September 2021 The coronavirus pandemic brought unexpected and significant disruption to the many spheres of our lives. The last year and a half have seen empty campuses and a precipitant shift towards e-learning among other efforts of the higher educational sector to survive in these turbulent times. While some experts predict a… Read more →
BE OPEN: Why Design Education Is Important 12 September 2021 Criticizing design education has become a popular trend these days. It is often accused of being costly and irrelevant and its value and validity are called in question. Some of the accusations are not baseless. The whole design field is going through major transformations, and educational institutions appear not to… Read more →
BE OPEN: How Generation Z Students Are Changing Higher Education Pt2 27 August 2021 A study conducted in nine European countries shows that “Entrepreneurship education has a positive impact on the entrepreneurial mindset of young people, their intentions towards entrepreneurship, their employability and finally on their role in society and the economy.” That also implies that if higher education institutions offered more entrepreneurial-minded vocational… Read more →
BE OPEN: How Generation Z Students Are Changing Higher Education 11 August 2021 Last several years of higher education have seen a new generation of students enter their college-going years. This is the so-called Generation Z, also known as Centennials or Zoomers, those born sometime in the mid-1990s through to 2012, and like many generations before them, they have their unique characteristics and… Read more →
BE OPEN on Creative Art Degrees: Return on Investment 21 July 2021 If you’re creative and imaginative, a degree in art could be just what you’re looking for to express yourself. But the starving artist stereotype perpetuated across generations makes us think that career of an artist can hardly be a lucrative one, and to pursue creativity would mean accepting inevitability of… Read more →
BE OPEN: Online Degree – to Be or Not to Be 16 July 2021 Online degree courses have gained immense popularity recently. The COVID-19 outbreak experienced throughout the world brought the transformation in education back to the agenda by forcing distance learning. Although learning the right brush stroke or mastering a drawing technique online can be a little more challenging than learning how to… Read more →
BE OPEN on Design Thinking: Foundation of Success or Fraud? Pt 2 24 June 2021 Proponents of Design Thinking claim that institutes, like the Hasso Plattner at Stanford, can be places of real exploration and new forms of teaching and research. However, some educators and designers air an opinion that design thinking has warped into something superficial that has little to do with actual design.… Read more →
