EDC MOOC Is Interaction Design a dead-end job? I think the issue is that Interaction Design is more a SKILL than a position. Face it, anyone can learn Photoshop, Flash, and Dreamweaver, but it takes someone with some knowledge of Interaction Design to make a good layout of a web site or interface. What needs to happen is that Interaction Design becomes more the way of a skill, a talent that's added on to an already there position. So the Interactive Art Director needs to know more than just drawing up a layout. That or the Quality Assurance person is also versed on Interactive Design and Usability and thus will offer more to the table to make the right design. Finally, the client needs to be better educated and put in a small level of control. I guess I see it as more of a craft than a skill or a job. Great subject--it's healthy to stir up things from time to time! It's funny, as I was reading this, I kept thinking: Yes, finally, IxD as a separate practice is fading, and thank goodness for that. Thanks for your thoughts.
Massive Open Online Courses, aka MOOCs, Transform Higher Education and Science When campus president Wallace Loh walked into Juan Uriagereka's office last August, he got right to the point. “We need courses for this thing — yesterday!” Uriagereka, associate provost for faculty affairs at the University of Maryland in College Park, knew exactly what his boss meant. MOOCs had exploded into the academic consciousness in summer 2011, when a free artificial-intelligence course offered by Stanford University in California attracted 160,000 students from around the world — 23,000 of whom finished it. Similar conversations have been taking place at major universities around the world, as dozens — 74, at the last count — rush to sign up. Image: Courtesy of Nature magazine The ferment is attributable in part to MOOCs hitting at exactly the right time. There is reason to hope that this is a positive development, says Roy Pea, who heads a Stanford center that studies how people use technology. Thrun announced his company Udacity in January 2012.
E-Learning and Digital Cultures MOOC - Discussion The best interface is no interface The actual work-flow of the NFC enabled Google Wallet is actually already much simpler than what you present. 1. Unlock phone, 2. Tap NFC enabled payment device with your phone, 3. @Matthew: Thanks. The opportunity for No UI in automobiles is ripe, and already pretty rich. @Nate Thanks! Great writeup. @Kurt: Thanks. Absolutely love this article. @Mike: Thanks for your comment and passing along the article. Great article, I agree we don't always need a digital interface. @Rachel: Thanks! I think the call to simplify and remove interfaces when they're not needed is great, and I would love to see more designs come out that allow me to fluidly interact with the complexities of the real world. @Jeff: I think you nailed it with this phrase, "Sometimes we may able to get away without having a UI if our intentions can be sensed reliably, but other times we will need to have some sort of UI." You just joined the world's greats! @Sunil: I'm speechless. Interesting thoughts. Interesting article.
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Coding An HTML 5 Layout From Scratch Despite courtship Amherst decides to shy away from star MOOC provider After months of wooing and under close scrutiny, edX was rejected this week by Amherst College amid faculty concerns about the online course provider's business plans and impact on student learning. Amherst professors voted on Tuesday not to work with edX, a nonprofit venture started by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to provide massive open online courses, or MOOCs. In interviews, professors cited a wide range of reasons for rejecting edX -- which currently works with only 12 elite partner colleges and universities -- starting with edX's incompatibility with Amherst’s mission and ending with, to some, the destruction of higher education as we know it. Amherst – an elite liberal arts college where seminars are the norm and professors pride themselves on spending an hour on each student’s paper – has been looking for companies with which it could experiment with online education. Some faculty wanted to expand Amherst’s repertoire and experiment online.
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MOOCs, Robots, and the Secret of Life For the last two years, MOOCs have dominated the national conversation on technology and the economics of higher education. But for all the talk of whether they’ll usher in a new age of democratized global learning or destroy higher learning as we know it (or possibly both at the same time), it’s been hard to get a handle on MOOCs are, and what they can be. A lot of MOOC journalism has been like this , wherein a general-interest magazine writer signed up for 11 courses, finished one of them (the easiest, apparently), and formed his opinions accordingly. On the theory that to understand an educational experience you should actually experience it, I’ve spent the last four months taking two MOOCs. Now I’m done, and this is what I learned. The first was Introduction to Philosophy , from Coursera (also the one class MOOC dropout guy finished, coincidentally.) And beyond the brevity, Introduction to Philosophy was missing important things. My second MOOC experience was very different.
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