This article talks about Creative Waves, the first in a series of free fully online projects for students located anywhere in the world, studying graphic design, photo-media and visual communication. Over a seven-week period in March and April, Creative Waves formed the largest multi-cultural community of student designers ever to work together in a totally online context. Typically the students had grown up within the digital world and were used to surfing and working online i.e digital natives.
The article goes on to say that this online community is completely successful even wth the absence of face-to-face mentoring. Although, it was the participants who concluded the process to be successful. Mentors and researchers found that there needed to be a much more structured way of involving the mentors and setting divisions for which areas which different mentors should focus on within online discussions. But with these changes researchers believe that the Creative Wave scheme will be back in the future and could even expand into all forms of teaching.
Key words : Creative Wave, digital natives, online community, mentoring.
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Sarah,
This sounds an interesting article - yes, I think much like this unit or the other one in Zambia the students seem to prefer it to the tutors.
All the best
Emma
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