Design, Multimedia and Visual Communication

DESIGN FOR LEARNING Specific objectives: The "Design for Learning" module – experimental/critical – focuses on the design capacity – strategical, practical and educational – towards the project of the educational artifact. The teaching, on the one hand, will offer the tools of research and thinking proper to Design – drawing from the disciplines of UX Research, Service Design, Design Thinking and Instructional Design up to Design Education – and, on the other hand, the knowledge and application of the proper design principles - hooking on Universal Design for Learning and declined according to the specific typology of artifact - in relation to the pedagogical objectives and learning methodologies chosen. Therefore, the student will acquire the necessary methods and tools of the communicative artifact of design for learning. For this reason, the two modules – of which the course is composed – run in parallel to provide media design skills in education by offering factual, conceptual, procedural, and metacognitive knowledge and skills for researching, designing, testing, and evaluating a complex educational communicative artifact. These skills will be tested as part of experimental and design activities through the development of thematic and semester-long project work.