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Interior design teaching methodology during the global COVID-19 pandemic
Interiority
  • Lina Ahmad, Zayed University
  • Marco Sosa, Zayed University
  • Karim Musfy, Zayed University
ORCID Identifiers

0000-0001-8236-6978

Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-31-2020
Abstract

© 2020, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Indonesia. All rights reserved. In March 2020, the World Health Organization officially announced the COVID-19 outbreak as a global Pandemic (WHO, 2020). During this time, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) introduced national preventative measures to slow the spread of the deadly virus by announcing the closure of schools and higher education institutions, and the commitment of online learning. Teaching faculty at the College of Arts and Creative Enterprises (CACE) at Zayed University were suddenly facing the challenge of teaching design through a distance learning approach. As educators of interior design, the authors were part of the team tasked to find ways to teach design without physical contact with the students nor access to campus facilities traditionally used to run the program and its associated courses. This paper charts the pedagogy approach that the authors adopted as a response to the national lockdown. As design faculty, the authors felt that, despite the restrictions imposed on society because of COVID-19 pandemic, it was still possible to explore other alternatives for a particular course, the senior capstone project. The main intention was to successfully fulfil the course learning outcomes and provide students with a suitable pedagogy continuity to the learning process commenced prior to the lockdown.

Publisher
Universitas Indonesia, Directorate of Research and Public Service
Disciplines
Keywords
  • Interior design,
  • Online pedagogy,
  • Online teaching design,
  • Online virtual exhibition,
  • Teaching under COVID-19,
  • Virtual reality
Scopus ID
85092623066
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
Indexed in Scopus
Yes
Open Access
Yes
Open Access Type
Gold: This publication is openly available in an open access journal/series
Citation Information
Lina Ahmad, Marco Sosa and Karim Musfy. "Interior design teaching methodology during the global COVID-19 pandemic" Interiority Vol. 3 Iss. 2 (2020) p. 163 - 184 ISSN: <a href="https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/issn/2614-6584" target="_blank">2614-6584</a>
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/marco-sosa/3/