At its heart, design is a studio-based discipline, which makes it difficult for design educators to adopt technology-driven changes into an online teaching and learning environment. Globally, few universities offer online undergraduate degree design courses, despite an overall growth in online higher degree curricula. Anecdotal evidence and limited research studies exploring the design educators’ view lament the potential loss of direct interactions between educator and design students in an online learning environment making it impossible to offer design education online. However, the attitude of design students towards online learning is largely underexplored. Given that today’s design students are considered tech-savvy, and there is a growing student demand for flexible study options, it would seem that design students would embrace online delivery options. The aim of this study is to explore the perception of undergraduate design students towards the idea of studying design online and whether or not blended learning could provide a transitional middle ground to a fully online design course. This study also touches on any student reservations about online delivery and identifies the barriers to study design online.

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在线设计教育：寻求中间立场

从本质上讲，设计是一门基于工作室的学科，这使得设计教育工作者很难将技术驱动的更改应用于在线教学环境。在全球范围内，尽管在线高学位课程的总体增长，但很少有大学提供在线本科学位设计课程。探索设计教育者观点的轶事证据和有限的研究哀叹在线学习环境中教育者与设计学生之间直接互动的潜在损失，从而无法在线提供设计教育。但是，对于设计专业的学生对在线学习的态度在很大程度上尚未得到开发。鉴于当今的设计专业学生被视为精通技术，并且学生对灵活的学习选择的需求也在不断增长，似乎设计专业的学生会喜欢在线交付选项。这项研究的目的是探索本科设计学生对在线学习设计的看法，以及混合学习是否可以为完全在线设计课程提供过渡的中间地带。这项研究还涉及对在线交付的任何学生保留，并确定了在线学习设计的障碍。