Online Learning Update

September 1, 2013

We Need a Digital-First Curriculum to Teach Modern Journalism

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:08 am

By Cindy Royal, Mind/Shift

At the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication in Washington, D.C., earlier this month, one panel addressed adding programming skills to the curriculum: “Why All Your Students Must Be Programmers.” ….overall, few specific recommendations were offered as to how programming could best be integrated into existing curriculum. I think there is a better route, another way to conceptualize an entirely new curriculum around Digital and Data-Driven Communication. And, in thinking about how this could be done, I’ve identified three guiding principles.

http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2013/08/we-need-a-digital-first-curriculum-to-teach-modern-journalism

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