Updates on AIGA Design Educator Community Initiatives

[Tunstall, Elizabeth]

Hello!

I am forwarding this on behalf of Brockett Horne who is on the AIGA DEC
with me. Some of you who are educators might be interested in some of the
Initiatives going on at AIGA, such as the Ethics discussion (a hot topic)
and promotion and tenure database.

Best,

Dori Tunstall
Associate Professor Design Anthropology
Associate Dean of Learning and Teaching
Swinburne University of Technology
Melbourne, Australia

Updated contact info coming next week.

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Welcome Design Educators!
Summer 2009 News

Join AIGA Design Educators Community!

AIGA Design Educators community seeks to enhance the abilities of design
educators and educational institutions to prepare future designers for
excellence in design practice, design theory and design writing at the
undergraduate and graduate levels while supporting the fundamental mission
of AIGA. We'd like to bring momentum to the community of design educators.
Become a member of AIGA (http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/join) and recommend
us to other educators. (Be sure to look for the special rate for full-time
educators!)

Also, be sure to join
(https://app.e2ma.net/app/view:Join/signupId:60907/acctId:9062%20%20) our
new dedicated AIGA Design Educators Community mailing list and suggest your
fellow educators sign up as well!

Design Educators Community website evolution
We're working on becoming the go-to site for design education by offering
news, events, resources, discussion, and important initiatives. Bookmark the
site and visit often! (http://designeducators.aiga.org/)

Call for proposals: design faculty research grant
Through a competitive, peer-review process, a grant of $5000 will be awarded
annually to provide support for design research. This includes scholarship
that generates new knowledge, integrates design knowledge into other
disciplines as an influential force, or explores new pedagogies through the
teaching of design and evaluation of learning outcomes. Click here for more
information (http://designeducators.aiga.org/). The application deadline is
July 15, 2009. Contact stacie@... with questions.

Ethics guidelines need your input
Do you have ideas about spec work, competitions, or meeting the demands of
your institution while achieving design excellence? Contribute your input
(http://designeducators.aiga.org/) on the final draft of the Standards of
Teaching. The guidelines have been created by AIGA Design Educators
Community (DEC) Steering Committee specifically for educators and as a
complement to AIGA Standards of Professional
Practice. (http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/standards-professional-practice)

Design policy proposals changing the face of design
Following up on Ric Grefe's lead, Dori Tunstall (organizer of US National
DesignPolicy Initiative and member of the DEC Steering Committee) seeks AIGA
design educators' participation in a US National Design Policy Initiative.
See http://www.designpolicy.org (http://www.designpolicy.org) for more
information. The Initiative is working closely with Cooper Hewitt National
Design Museum education director, Caroline Payson, to enhance K-12 design
education and project-based learning.

Promotion and tenure information for educators
The DEC Steering Committee is undertaking an initiative to provide a variety
of resources helpful to design educators and institutions concerning issues
of promotion and tenure. Planned for inclusion are suggested practices in
promotion and tenure processes; samples of institutional promotion and
tenure guidelines; samples of faculty promotion and tenure dossiers;
web-articles and a discussion forum. Contact nini.1@... to share ideas.

Horizon report published
The New Media Consortium and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative recently
published the 2009 Horizon Report highlighting technologies destined to
impact higher education in the coming five years. The report offers an
interesting glimpse of the near future of education, with this year's report
focusing on the role of mobile technology, cloud computing, the personal web
and geo-location as key technologies. For the first time, NMC has also
released a K-12 version of the report, which predicts the growing
significance of collaboration and smart objects. The reports are free, and
are available to read online or as PDF downloads here.
(http://horizon.nmc.org/wiki/Main_Page)

Community college initiative
The DEC Steering Committee is interested in learning more about the needs of
community college design educators and their students. Knowing that
community colleges serve a diverse range of students in what is most often
an open-entry institution, we are interested in connecting AIGA, CC design
educators, and four-year institutions in ways that support the growth of our
students
and the future of the profession. Contact Mara Jevera Fulmer to share your
ideas. Send email to mara.fulmer@....

* Share your student work! It could inspire others, or be featured on the
design educators community website or newsletters. Join our flickr group.
(http://www.flickr.com/groups/aiga_dec/)

Have news to share? Email Brockett Horne at bhorne@....

Learn more about any of these news items by visiting the design educators
community website (http://designeducator.aiga.org).




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