SCADnow

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Combining real-time engagement and on-demand access, SCADnow offers on-the-go artists, designers, and professionals unparalleled distance education.

The university's signature online learning platform, SCADnow connects students anywhere in the world with professors, peers, and professionals through a vibrant, digital community. With courses streaming in real time and accessible anytime, students master their disciplines as they learn from world-class SCAD faculty. Depending on their major, students may take all or part of their program online through SCADnow.

SCADnow empowers all students, from those logging in around the globe to those on-ground at a university location, with the flexibility to digitally connect to their studies according to their own distinct schedules. SCADnow courses meet online via Zoom at designated times throughout the week and feature real-time, face-to-face lectures, demonstrations, discussions, and collaborations. For students who prefer to experience SCADnow on their own schedule, classroom engagement is amplified through on-demand discussions, course content, and recorded class sessions. To complement the "in-class experience," SCADnow offers students a robust array of extended learning opportunities and support services. Outside the digital classroom, SCADnow students participate in virtual conversations and master classes with the creators and innovators remaking art, design, and entertainment. SCADextra and SCADextra TECH workshops extend the learning experience by encouraging students to delve deeply into unique subjects and skill sets that augment "in-class learning" and strengthen their sense of community. Through SCADamp, the university's professional presentation studio, students develop and deliver compelling pitches and presentations, preparing them to capitalize on career-making, peak-performance moments.

SCADnow learning opportunities also extend to professionally driven SCAD initiatives, like digital collaborations with top companies via SCADpro, the university's creative research and innovation design studio, and virtual employer recruitment and interviews through CAS on Demand. From interior designers managing client relationships that stretch across the world to fashion designers exhibiting on the virtual runway, SCADnow maximizes connectivity and choice while preparing students for the realities of working and collaborating as creative professionals.

Virtual teaching technology provided to SCADnow professors like Marjorie Ward offers students easy-to-view looks at techniques and course topics.

Speaking of companies innovating, kudos to SCAD for the SCADnow asynchronous class offerings. The structure the university and my professor created this quarter has hands down been my favorite so far. SCOTT DINTELMAN

Communication designer, Boeing SCAD M.A. interactive design and game development Ladson, South Carolina