Print Email Facebook Twitter The MOOC-ability of design education Title The MOOC-ability of design education Author Stellingwerff, M.C. Faculty Architecture and The Built Environment Department Architecture Date 2015-12-31 Abstract In the past three years, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have become an important new way for universities to reach out to possible matriculates, life long learners and alumni. Although MOOCs already cover a vast amount of subjects and curricula, it is remarkable to ascertain the lack of Architectural Design courses on the main platforms like edX and Coursera. Online courses do cover design aspects, e.g. about styles and building materials, but 'design as activity' is an exceptional subject in the portfolio of available MOOCs. In contrast, the CAAD community was one of the first to develop Virtual Design Studio's (VDS) and experimental predecessors of MOOC platforms, such as the AVOCAAD course database system (Af Klercker et al. 2001). Yet, the query 'MOOC' still does not ring a bell in the CUMINCAD publication database (per May 2015). In this paper I will explore a palette of design education settings, in order to find a fit to what a MOOC platform can offer. I will compare the 'MOOC-ability' of Design Education to chances in Virtual Design Studio's and developments in ubiquitous mobile platforms. Subject MOOCVDSstructured courseexplicit knowledgeeducational setting To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:3b3dd875-33af-4635-bf56-62adc9967b65 Publisher Vienna University of Technology ISBN 9789491207099 Source Real Time; Proceedings of the 33rd eCAADe Conference. Vol. 2. Vienna (Austria), 16-18 Sept. 2015 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2015 Stellingwerff, M.C. Files PDF 320372.pdf 80.83 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:3b3dd875-33af-4635-bf56-62adc9967b65/datastream/OBJ/view