3 Million StoriesCurriculum Innovations

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2131 Students

48 states; 53 countries

1829 UG Students - BFA Degree in 15 majors + Integrated Humanistic Studies

(4 year, 126 credit program)

304 Grad Students - P.B. Certificate, MPS, MAT, MA, MFA Degrees in 18 programs

Served by 354 faculty for a ratio of 1:9

2020 Plan for MICA   

Maryland Institute College of Art

  

 April 2010

EPIC

Educational Planning Committee

Sub Committee Goals

• ContentMICA has a culture of meaningful assessment.

• StructureMICA has new curricular models that integrate alternative approaches to learning with traditional modes of delivery.

• OrganizationMICA’s organization and decision-making processes effectively support the increased scope and complexity of its programs and activities.

• Changing nature of student learning• Balance of discipline-based to interdisciplinary

study and practice• Academic vs. Studio• Inventing and matching new forms of delivery

with content• Integrating student-learning with a dynamic

external cultural environment (project-based collaborations; international study and engagement, etc.)

Educational Challenges

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Is Going to an Elite College Worth the Cost?

Questioning the Return on Educational Investment

President Challenging the high cost of College

How to Avoid the High Cost of College

What to do to avoid paying full price

Compare Tuition at different Colleges

“In AY’12, US Families spent 13% less on higher education than in 2010, on average”.

A Degree Drawn in Red Ink Graduates of Arts-Focused Schools Are Shown to Rack Up the Most Student Debt

Creating ways of containing the costs of education without reducing the quality of the experience

Faculty must teach more students, i.e.., faculty: student ratio must increase

Economic Variables• Measuring work: the credit hour:

• Tying faculty load to the credit hour• Measuring student achievement by time-on-task

• Faculty/other personnel• Time• Space (physical and virtual)• Technologies

• Assess what’s happening now

• Get faculty engaged in the conversation

Art Education “Bringing Second Life to Your Course”Humanistic Studies “Conversation Exercises for Humanistic Studies Majors”Animation “Project-Based Short-Term Courses”Fine Arts “Dimensional Drawing”Environmental Design “How to Teach Design in 15 Minutes”

Foundation “Good Ideas for Googleized Brains”Humanistic Studies “The Play’s the Thing”Art Education “What Zvezdana Inspired Me to Do” MA/MFA in Community Arts “Community Arts Mentoring Techniques”

MA in Social Design “Activating a Community of Creative Change Makers”Graphic Design “The 3 Hr. Block: Shorter, More Intense, and Student

CentricArt Education “MAT (Re) Design: Student-Centered, Resource-

Conscious and Course-Specific”Academic Technology “Blended Courses”SPCS “Online Courses”

2013 AICAD Conference: NEW PARADIGMS IN

TEACHING/LEARNING

November 7-9, 2013 Maryland Institute College of Art

Baltimore, MD

Structural Frame for the Conference:

Context• What do our graduates do with their degrees? • How do their options reflect a changing

external environment?

Process• How do students learn?• What has changed, what is constant? 

Structural Frame for the Conference:

Content• What do students today need to know?• What do we add? What do we keep?

Form• How do changes in content affect approaches

to delivery? • How will economic considerations affect or

drive new forms of delivery?

Structural Frame for the Conference:

Means• Whence the credit hour: Are there alternative

means for measuring work/achievement? • What are the tools for assessing student

learning?