In recent years, online education has been highly expected by all walks of life, but it has always been everyone's "alternative" for various objective reasons. However, under the influence of the epidemic, online classes have become "just needed", and the rapid development in a short time has also accelerated the process of online classes being recognized and accepted by everyone. How about online art professional collection training? Let's see what the Admissions Officers Alliance says today.
As one of the earliest art training institutions adopting online education mode, Natural Light did not spend too much time on adaptation and adjustment from the platform, teaching and research team, and teachers in this national online learning tide. With a mature training system and a series of emergency measures, it soon integrated into daily teaching work. Some time ago, we also invited a group of online course students and front-line art teachers to share their learning achievements and work experience on the experience of this online course.
In the natural light, there is also a group of special teaching teams - the overseas alliance composed of "admissions officers+college professors". They are not only the participants of this online trend, but also draw on the advantages of online education of overseas art colleges and become the pioneers of online art education at this stage.
In fact, since the establishment of the Natural Light Admissions Officer Alliance, our overseas online art professional portfolio training courses have been launched simultaneously. The Admissions Officer's online review, 1V1 teaching and research, participation in the curriculum development of the teaching and research center, and more coverage of students' daily teaching and portfolio guidance. For Natural Light, overseas online classes are our daily teaching.
In the art study abroad market with uncertain prospects this year, how can the admissions officers, as the admission review standard of colleges and universities, help students with online education platforms? Today, we also invited 7 members of the Natural Light Overseas Alliance to share their feelings and insights about online education and provide online learning suggestions for students!
How about online art professional collection training?
Q: Based on previous online audit experience, do you think online teaching is difficult?
Chris Jessick
SVA Former Admissions Officer, New York School of Visual Arts
A: In my nearly 13 years of teaching experience, most of my participation in professional courses, seminars, workshops, school visits, portfolio reviews and other large-scale activities is through the combination of offline and online. This is also true of many of my colleagues, including our student recruitment officer alliance members, guest professors, designers, and so on, to a large extent, Therefore, we are very concerned about everyone who is currently adapting to this new environment.
Although this is true, in fact, it also provides all of us with the opportunity to explore this era trend and very necessary teaching method. Given that many educational institutions and online platforms have been seeking online teaching models and more tools, I think the difference between the two is gradually narrowing;
Although live/video learning may not cover all forms of learning, especially in practical art, design and studio environments, it is still a very powerful tool to provide continuous inspiration and stimulate creativity. I believe that as we continue to develop courses and refined platforms, more functions will be realized.
In my teaching process, due to geographical reasons, I may not be able to give face-to-face guidance to my students in China. These continuous online resources will continue to be an important supplement to classroom teaching and continue to play a more important role in my teaching practice.
Q: Most domestic schools and some overseas schools have set up online teaching. Do you think this measure is helpful for students' learning?
MEGAN SUTTLES
Pratt Preet College of Art Former Deputy Director of Admission
A: I do know that the implementation of online learning in many Chinese and foreign educational institutions is crucial to the sustainable development of students, especially at this special time. I am very happy to see so many institutions and organizations can successfully achieve this goal, and quickly use resources to operate.
Of course, in addition to simply copying existing resources online to replace the current temporary education gap, I believe we need to establish a more complex and systematic strategic plan to ensure that our resource allocation in all aspects can form a stronger combination and be seamlessly applied to practical teaching.
As a member of the Natural Light Overseas Alliance, my goal is to work with all teacher teams to build a series of powerful online course products, combining professional knowledge, institutional resources and application planning through our live courses and other interactive workshops to provide students with the strongest support.
Q: What do you think is the most important thing about online learning?
Kara Rooney
SVA, former deputy director of admissions office of New York School of Visual Arts
A: Practicability is the most important aspect, and can be seen from several perspectives: first, the teaching content itself needs to be adjusted to ensure that it is correctly conveyed in an online mode, and there should also be enough space for dynamic adjustment of the content demonstrated by the instructor;
Of course, for overseas teachers, a third party may also be required to ensure that classroom effects and continuous discussions can be carried out during the course through translation, hosting and other means; At the end of the course, if there is any problem feedback and work progress, it is also necessary to follow up in time to ensure students' teaching achievements.
Q: According to previous online audit and teaching experience, what do you think is the focus of students' online teaching?
Trevor Amery
MICA Former Admissions Advisor, Maryland College of Arts
A: So far, I have helped many students provide suggestions during the interview and application stages, and most of them are teaching in the simulated online interview environment. One of the most special cases is that I once helped a student living in other countries to participate in the offline interview and portfolio review of the college application.
At that time, we had no way to communicate face to face. We were all through online art professional collection training, and I also made adequate preparations for it. Before the training, I held a 90 minute meeting with other teaching teams of students to get to know students as much as possible, and also conducted research on colleges and universities.
I think this experience gives us a clearer understanding of online interview and teaching, and video training can be longer and more comprehensive, which is very suitable for long-distance training.
Q: What is online teaching like overseas?
David Peck
Parsons, former admissions consultant of Parsons School of Design
A: At present, many schools have set up online course plans for some professional disciplines, but I think that for some disciplines, especially hands-on courses, there are still many drawbacks in the implementation of courses, which can not effectively replace teaching, workshops and long-term development.
However, natural light has a lot of experience in this aspect, for example, it will share the screen; Make up by adjusting creative means; In the research stage of practical materials, we seek to be more detailed, so as to help students make up for the errors of their experimental materials.
Of course, if the educational institutions themselves can ensure that students can carry out practical work and development independently between two online courses in various forms, it is completely feasible. What we need to do as mentors is also proper critical guidance and team participation, then it is a very perfect alternative.
However, at present, the online art professional portfolio training course has become the dominant course. What we need to do is to try our best to increase the participation in the after-school links and train students to actively enter a stressful learning environment.
Q: What are the learning focuses of online one-on-one teaching and free open classes for students?
Molly Ryan
Calarts Director of Admission Office, California Academy of Arts
A: One to one online teaching is definitely the most effective help of online platforms, and I know that we have conducted such guidance since the establishment of Natural Light, but I do think that many people can participate in open courses at the same time, which also play an important role in different learning stages.
As an educator with more than 20 years of working experience, in addition to my daily teaching work, I will also go to many countries to carry out other special activities, including lectures, workshops, portfolio review and so on. In particular, the types of workshops, such as the workshops I conducted in several campuses in natural light, are generally limited in the number of participants.
However, in the online lecture/course environment, technically speaking, we have unlimited space for participants to actively and passively participate in and listen to, and even actively participate in courses of interest at any level they choose.
In this sense, the online art professional portfolio training course is also a manifestation of maximizing resource advantages.
Q: How should the application of students be reasonably planned in combination with online courses?
Liz Nielsen
SAIC Art Institute of Chicago Former Deputy Director of Admission Office
A: For us, now is actually a chance and perfect time. We have more free time to develop and practice more learning methods, especially to carry out various cooperation with overseas teaching teams.
In the past offline courses, tutors from many colleges and universities may not be able to come to China to teach students on-site due to travel restrictions. But now, through this way, we can directly connect with professors and admissions officers of colleges and universities in the course of application stage to help students establish a more comprehensive learning plan;
And clear communication is essential to eliminate any incorrect information, which can help students understand the competitive pressure and learning objectives, and participate in the whole process of training and learning.
In this year's art design professional training, the tense situation requires students to maintain a higher degree of learning enthusiasm, maintain a high degree of concentration in each class, and spontaneously complete learning tasks after class. In fact, this is also the way of learning after entering foreign universities. Students can take the lead in feeling and master the correct way to learn art in advance!
The above are the questions and answers of the seven overseas alliance members of Natural Light for this online art professional portfolio training class. From the answers, we can see that although they expressed confidence in the online class mode, they put forward higher requirements for students' learning methods, platform use, and team cooperation due to their sense of responsibility as educators.
Overseas admissions officer resources have always been the biggest advantage of natural light that distinguishes all institutions, and every year we are constantly updating and upgrading the teaching scale and curriculum system. What the overseas alliance carries is not only the curriculum guidance, but also the comprehensive control of every student's direct access to the dream school from multiple directions of specialty, skills, humanities, and application planning.
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