Open AccessArt and Design Education in Times of COVID-19: Distance Learning and the Importance of Interaction and Empathy
Author(s) -
Ruth Mateus-Berr
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
digital psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2708-3381
pISSN - 2708-2768
DOI - 10.24989/dp.v2i2.2016
Subject(s) - covid-19 , digitization , distance education , empathy , the arts , pandemic , set (abstract data type) , digital media , public relations , sociology , visual arts , mathematics education , pedagogy , political science , psychology , computer science , medicine , world wide web , art , disease , pathology , psychiatry , infectious disease (medical specialty) , computer vision , programming language
At the period of worldwide public health emergency of COVID-19, the majority of educational institutions in the world have faced the forced emergency lockdown and migration into the digital, online or virtual learning and teaching environments. Basically, it must be stated up front that digital media and processes have long been part of art instruction, and the maker movement has introduced 3-D printing, especially in design classes. But distance learning presents yet another set of challenges for these subjects. This article examines how this change has affected the teaching of art and design, looks at two case studies (secondary school and university) and refers to discussions at art education conferences and papers on the post-pandemic challenges of digitization in the arts.