온라인 디자인 교육과정의 발전 방향에 관한 연구

Background: Presently design education of Cyber University should have a role and responsibility as a higher-educational institution same as general off-line universities, besides the role of lifelong education (or reeducation) which has been conducted so far, according to increase of freshmen from non-design major who enter Cyber University immediately after graduating high school, since domestic Cyber University was changed to formal educational institution applied by higher-education act since 2008. Methods: After advanced research related to this research and document research on the online design education, this research will suggest a development direction of online design curriculum henceforth by deriving the problem and improvement based on the investigation of domestic Cyber University design department curriculum and survey on visual communication design major students of S Digital University Design Department where the researcher is teaching. Result: Henceforth, development direction of online design curriculum is as follows. 1) Affiliated design curriculum utilizing online characteristic is necessary to be opened. 2) Online design curriculum proper for recent trend should be continuously suggested. 3) Characterized curriculum individually customized should be developed and suggested according to segmentalized demand of adult learners from various backgrounds. 4) Curriculum should be established in the direction of considering individual career after graduation. 5) It is necessary to plan design curriculum applied with digital technology and improve completion of design output by actively utilizing this. Conclusion: Henceforth, online design education should aim for creative and analytic design manpower training through more systematic and comprehensive education on design field (design basic, practice, theory), etc. to be proper for higher-education system, besides the existing lifelong education (or reeducation).