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SCAD DMGT Faculty
Don’t use Instagram regularly
Motive: To bridge the generation gap between faculty and students, with context to social media.
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What is the problem?
While Blackboard offers multiple features to create & post information online, it is time and effort consuming for certain activities. For example - while introducing an industry specialist to the students, the faculty needs to provide them with some background, work samples, etc. Instagram could do this in a few seconds as opposed to Blackboard. Not just this, Blackboard doesn’t provide real time notifications & updates and requires regular check ins for announcements, creating a communication gap.
Note: For now, the idea is to add on to Blackboard and not substitute it.
Instagram - ‘The Added layer’
Blackboard
Academic tool to submit assignments and get your grade evaluation
A platform to be used with Blackboard to provide an extra layer of engagement
Access to assignments Limited media type available
Complex to understand & use Not engaging
Instant notifications
Plethora of useful features
Connections with Alums
Connections with Design community
Instagram is a platform which is widely used by university students globally and hence will allow opportunities for collaboration & exchanging information with one another.
Why?
With the various features offered by Instagram (live, stories, bio link, highlights, etc.), professors will be able to share latest work of industry mentors, brands and even alums with minimal clicks
Benefits?
● This innovation is directed towards improving communication between students and faculty and making them more interactive, engaging and collaborative in nature.
● It will be a new tool which will update and alert the parties involved instantly.
From younger cro d in their personal/professional life
How will they adopt?
A handbook hich ans ers all their questions
An Instagram training set-up at SCAD
Tutorial ideos across SCAD community
Attributes of Innovation
Since all the students use Instagram, study material posted online will not go unnoticed. Additionally it will provide an instant contact between the two parties.
