[IxDA Discuss] Valuable courses for interaction Designers

[Chris Bernard]

I think the school itself is outstanding from a faculty and student body perspective. I have no experience or opinions with their online education programs. Self-paced study in online learning environments can be effective but your brain has to be wired for it correctly. As someone that did a part time program in Chicago at the Institute of Design I can only say that studying design is challenging when you do it part-time. I would imagine online and part-time might be harder unless you're exceptionally disciplined.

Alternatively you can just do what folks like David Armano did and start a blog, I think he got a better education than me by doing that. :)

Chris Bernard
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-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-bounces at lists.interactiondesigners.com [mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.interactiondesigners.com] On Behalf Of Dave Jasper
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 5:06 AM
To: discuss at ixda.org
Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Valuable courses for interaction Designers

Thanks for the great information above. I live in NYC and I am
interested in interaction design. I know there are some great full
time programs here (NYU, Parsons) but I cannot commit to full-time
studies. I was thinking of the online interaction design program at
SCAD. Does anyone have an opinion about this program or school?

Thanks for your help.
Dave Jasper


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