2008

Enhancing Curricula: using research and enquiry to inform student learning in the disciplines

3rd - 4th April 2008
Lycee Francais, New York

Keynotes: Mark Wigley, Ana Maria Pacheco, Professor Jay Rutherford, Alison Shreeve

Proceedings now available (order here)

2006

Enhancing Curricula: contributing to the future, meeting the challenges of the 21st century in the disciplines of art, design and communication

6th - 7th April 2006
Hotel Sana Park, Lisbon, Portugal

Keynotes: Richard Buchanan, Allan Davies, Sharman Petty, Anne Bamford

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2004

Enhancing curricula: Towards the Scholarship of Teaching in Art, Design and Communication

15th - 16th April 2004

Barcelona, Spain

Keynotes: Keith Trigwell, Nancy Lamers, Alan Baines and Garth Lewis

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2002

Enhancing curricula: Exploring Effective Curricula Practices in Art, Design and Communication

10th - 12th April 2002

Royal Institute of Architects, London, UK

Papers from the conference are available in pdf format below

Keynotes

• What an artist needs to know - Stephen Farthing, RA
• Curricula of collaboration: educating postgraduate students for the workplace - Teal Triggs
• Design curriculum challenges for today's university - Ken Friedman

Papers

• - Noam Austerlits, Iris Aravot
• Research study drawing from visual thinking - Mike Bradshaw
• Understanding learning styles: implications for design education in external settings - Geoffrey Caban, Jenny Wilson
• What to teach? Qualitative research into fine art undergraduate programmes - Frances Corner
• Enhancing the design curriculum through pedagogic research - Allan Davies
• Fashion variations: student approaches to learning in fashion design - Linda Drew, Sue Bailey, & Alison Shreeve
• Can the use of computer-mediated communication for distance collaboration enhance the design curriculum? - John Fraser
• Students' understanding of the relationship between theory and practice - Annie Grove-White
• The act of sketching in learning and teaching the design of environments: a total skill for complex expression - Richard Hare
• A relationship between thinking styles and design degree student motivation - K. H. Hilton
• Independent learning in art and design masters courses: the development of an electronic learning contract - Robert Jerrard, Jeannette Luczkowski, Marie Jefsioutine & Darren Newbury
• Theory in practice: practice in theory - strategies for integration - Ken Marsden
• Nurturing an intelligence of seeing - Howard Riley
• Teaching creativity - a systemic viewpoint - Pradeep Sharma
• More than seeking model answers to predetermined problems: enhancing students' problem-finding capabilities in design subjects - Kin Wai Michael Siu
• Online learning environments with group-based assessment: evidence of significant benefits from the integration of web-based projects with self and peer assessment in a visual communication undergraduate degree programme - Darrall Thompson
• Understanding learning styles: implications for design education in the university - Jenny Toynbee Wilson

Work in Practice

• Research methods curricula for practice-based postgraduate courses (UK): appropriate practice for art and design - Joan Burks
• A case study evaluation of task force group peer-assisted independent teaching and learning project - Howard Cannatella
• The role of art and design graduate employment research in informing curriculum development and review - Hardip Gosal, John S Pearson & Paul L Squires
• Student mentor project - Daphne Hampton
• 'Quick, act like an art director!' Role playing in the graphic design classroom - Deborah Huelsbergen
• The development of an art curriculum for part-time adult students - David Jones, Gillian Perkins
• Tangible to intangible - Filiz Klassen
• Effective multimedia contents developing for moving image design on Web-based instruction - Chang-Hyun Kwon
• 'Creatives' and 'suits': developing an interdisciplinary course for design and management students - Nicky Ryan

Workshops

• Embedding new technologies in language learning for art, design and media in higher education: from invisibility to transferability with ALLADIN - Alison Kennard
• Workshop: extending education and career opportunities for the Deaf community with particular reference to developing generic and subject specific language skills - Judith Mole, Diane Peacock
• Curriculum integration of a visual digital learning unit, with reference to SeeingDrawing and SeeingColour - David Rowsell