Building a shared cross-cultural learning community for visual communication design education

Abstract

This paper discusses a case study of an educational online visual communication design project. The project is to develop an online platform, which facilitates cross-cultural communications and educational experiences for college-level students and educators in the visual communication design field in conjunction with information graphics assignments. The online system developed for this project allows students in visual design courses to share their class assignments and evaluate works posted by the members from other countries. The assignments are designed to encourage students to investigate the cultural differences and roles of images in visual communication design. The pedagogical value of the project is evaluated by analyzing user interview and survey results. © 2011 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.