Outcome & Sustainability
Creation of a cadre of creative professionals (skilled pedagogy) to teach and train other students and trainees in such topics will be the immediate short term result of this project. In the longer term, these materials will create many more aspiring professionals spiral the growth of creative & cultural industries in India in a similar fashion as India’s IT industry has been able to create its own identity in the world.
This essentially means opening up of a new career opportunity for the bright minds amongst youth, who would use these materials for gaining specialised skills in specific traits connected with CCI.
One direct outcome of this project will be a Knowledge portal for creative and cultural industries, which will become a sustainable mechanism for an active academia-industry interface in times to come.
UK faculty/students can learn from Indian counterparts and acquire knowledge on crafts and indigenous knowledge applies in various forms of cultural industries, which can then be used to design appropriate curriculum materials offered under this collaborative project. This knowledge will be vital to train the youth on how to apply professional design communication concepts to succeed in modern businesses. At the same time, this will come handy for British trainees to replicate its success in UK . The UK partners will also be able to identify internship/job prospects while interacting with Indian Industry partners.
Design
Perth College UHI will provide technical support and mentoring on curriculum development including the structuring of online materials and optimising the user interface for meaningful engagement of the learner.
The materials developed will be multi-disciplinary consisting of inter connected topics, that allow for essential and electives options dependent on the specific strand.
At the heart of design communication is examining social and cultural ramifications of communication. Enabling faculty and students within both countries to share and experience cultures beyond their own, increases their capacity to be able to create compelling messages, narrate them in meaningful ways and craft strategies to broadcast them to the world.
Tailored educational and training materials to be delivered using latest tools and technical aids i.e. multimedia and web-based delivery methods via a website/portal specially created for the purpose.
