Journal of Useful Investigations in Creative Education
This commentary examines the potential for VLEs to create and embed communities of practice and to support students’ learning experience in art and design, and specifically fashion. A case study approach is employed, using the example of a community focused platform, Aula. The findings indicate that while using conventions from social media can increase communication …
Teaching creative subjects online during the pandemic has clearly raised numerous complex issues regarding inclusive learning. In the first of two projects on this topic, Team Chamomile’s research project focused on the impact of asynchronous teaching on inclusive learning environments. The team undertook 12 structured interviews involving participants from South Korea, New York, Germany and …
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“Increasingly, the web is a space of politics, a social space, a professional space, a space of community. And, for better or worse, more and more of our learning is happening there. For many of us, it is becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish between our real selves and our virtual selves, and in fact, these …
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Abstract Online collaboration is becoming an ever more prevalent and feasible option in education. As technological options and distance teaching methods improve, the value of using online platforms to teach, learn and collaborate is becoming increasingly recognised. This paper examines and reflects on its place and use in creative education. Using video-conferencing software Zoom, these …
Abstract In September 2016, the Fine Art team at the University for the Creative Arts (Canterbury) suggested recording lectures as something they could do in response to Disabled Student Allowance funding changes. My role then, Learning Support Coordinator, was to initiate/trial/encourage inclusive practice, so I was eager to support this. The practice was trialled across …
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