Intro programming for digital artists About the Course The course, lecture, and examples build on each other to teach the fundamentals of programming in general (logic, loops, functions, objects, classes) and also deals with advanced topics including multi-threading, events and signals. Throughout the course, students create meaningful and rewarding expressive digital “instruments” that make sound and music in direct response to program logic. Course Syllabus WEEK 1: Basics: Sound, Waves, and ChucK Programming WEEK 2: Libraries and Arrays WEEK 3: Sound File Manipulation WEEK 4: Functions WEEK 5: Unit Generators and Physical Models WEEK 6: Multi-Threading and Concurrency WEEK 7: Objects and Classes WEEK 8: Live Control: Keyboard, Mouse & MIDI Recommended Background This course was designed to teach a novice programmer (or an artist new to programming) how to code, but will be useful for more experienced programmers. Suggested Readings Course Format Will I get a Statement of Accomplishment after completing this class? Yes.
Innovation Through Design Thinking 03/16/2006 12:00 PM WongTimothy Brown, CEO, IDEODescription: Not so long ago, Tim Brown recounts, designers belonged to a "priesthood." Given an assignment, a designer would disappear into a back room, "bring the result out under a black sheet and present it to the client." Brown and his colleagues at IDEO, the company that brought us the first Apple Macintosh mouse, couldn't have traveled farther from this notion. At IDEO, a "design thinker" must not only be intensely collaborative, but "empathic, as well as have a craft to making things real in the world." Since design flavors virtually all of our experiences, from products to services to spaces, a design thinker must explore a "landscape of innovation" that has to do with people, their needs, technology and business. Brown dips into three central "buckets" in the process of creating a new design: inspiration, ideation and implementation. credit MIT World -- special events and lectures license MIT TechTV
Home | See Project | Sharing Experience Europe Creativity, Innovation and Chage This course empowers learners to develop their creative human potential to improve, enhance, and transform their businesses, communities, and personal lives. Processes like Intelligent Fast Failure will teach you rapid prototyping skills, while the Adaption-Innovation creative style spectrum will help you understand how and why your ideas are unique - and how you can work better with others to solve complex problems. Personal reflection tools like CENTER add a character development dimension to the course that is an important first step towards unlocking your creative potential. Joining the team are Dr. Follow us on Twitter @PSUCIC Like our Facebook Page hereJoin our Google+ community hereConnect with the community on LinkedIn here Time-frame: 8 weeks, starting in September 2013 Week 1: Creative Identity The Importance of FailureCreative DiversityEstablishing and Building Character Week 2: Idea Generation Ideation MethodsIdea JournalCreative Divergence Week 3: Idea Evaluation Adventurers.
Design Thinking for Educators Toolkit The Design Thinking for Educators Toolkit contains the process and methods of design adapted for the context of K–12 education. It offers new ways for educators to be intentional and collaborative as they design solutions for their schools, empowering educators to create impactful solutions for complex challenges. Teachers all over the globe are using it to create new solutions for their classrooms, schools and communities—using empathy to help develop curriculum, engaging students in helping to design their spaces and working with each other to create new tools and processes for school-based challenges. At IDEO, we’ve been using similar processes, methods and tools for years in tackling some dauntingly complex challenges. Visit the Design Thinking Toolkit for Educators site for stories, case studies, process outlines, engagement opportunities, and more.
Wanted: Two Senior Service Designers at @FutureGov How should citizens access public services online now and in the future? Starting immediately and initially on a contract until Christmas, we’re looking for one full time and one part time senior service designer to help us find the answer. Ideally you would have experience in public services but other regulated services (banking, telcos, airlines etc) are relevant. Making change happen in big bureaucracies is hard. You should be awesome at: - creating user personas (personae?) We should feel confident putting you in front of a local government client and their demands shouldn’t phase you. Your first project will be helping a London local authority understand how citizens could access public services online, doing lots of insight work with local people and designing the future of public services on the web. To find out more about FutureGov you can browse around here or see our page on Somewhere. *Gluten free alternatives available
Developing Innovative Ideas for New Companies About the Course #1 Entrepreneurship Course on Coursera* #3 Overall Business Course on Coursera* *CourseTalk's "Top Rated" MOOCs (October, 2014) This course assists aspiring entrepreneurs in developing great ideas into great companies. Using proven content, methods, and models for new venture opportunity assessment and analysis, students will learn how to enhance their entrepreneurial mindset and develop their functional skill sets to see and act entrepreneurially. With this course, students experience a sampling of the ideas and techniques explored in the University of Maryland's Online Master of Technology Entrepreneurship. Course Syllabus Week One: Entrepreneurial Perspective What is entrepreneurship? Week Two: Entrepreneurial Mindset, Motivations and Behaviors Entrepreneurial mindsetEntrepreneurial motivationsEntrepreneurial behavoirsRisk taking in entrepreneurial decision-makingRisk, uncertainty, and stakeholder involvement Week Three: Industry Understanding Recommended Background Yes!
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