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After the Big Bang: What’s next in design education? Time to relax?
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It has only been two years since I wrote Big Bang Technology: What’s next in design education, radical innovation or incremental change? In that brief time, technology has continued to drive change in how design is practised, produced, accessed, traded, taught and learnt. I have continued to adjust my media design curriculum with small modifications and, where warranted, radical changes. In two years, the application of the learning and teaching approach I devised and described to manage the increasing complexity of technology in media design education has stopped, but research into sustainability of new learning and teaching models has started and the implementation of the first fully online media design degree has begun.
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