After the success of Adobe Generation I mentioned back in 2013/14, comes the successor, but this time it’s slightly different!

I participated (for a short time) on the App Design course as back then I was considering including app design and development within Media Production, either as part of the curriculum or at the very least, a series of master classes.

Sadly I din’t have time to complete to the course but I remember really enjoying the method of delivery as well as the subject area and real sense of community that became established by the participants. I was impressed by just positive everybody became and this was a huge motivational factor for me to step up my efforts and try to excel. This worked and I won the ‘Weekly Winner’ competition for Week 2 of course where the task was to design a basic interface and visual theme for our proposed ‘App Project’.

I was disappointed that I was unable to participate until the end but now, Adobe are launching Adobe Generation Professional, a series of 7 courses that follow a similar model to the previous set of courses except this time they are focusing on not just skills/software development, but also how you can implement what you learn into the classroom.

The 6 subjects covered are:

• Digital Imaging
• Games Design
• Graphics & Illustration
• Web Design
• Publishing
• Animation
• App Design

Once again I have signed up to everything with the intention of completing all courses (except maybe the first one).

I encourage all staff and students who see this post to engage with at least one of the courses to see how online learning is different from campus-based learning, and how we could adapt some of the methodologies to enhance our currently curriculum and teaching.

I will post my activities and experiences of the course(s).