Quality Management . . . for Education?

1. Create and manage digital media content, including photographic, illustration, video, and animation.
2. Develop production-ready graphic layouts for digital media, print products, and cross-media products like publications, packages, labels, and signage.
3. Participate productively in a range of graphic production processes, including printing (litho, flexo, digital), e-publishing, cross-media, and website development.
4. Employ a technology management skill set, including project management, quality control, and business practices.
5. Learn independently within the context of the graphic communications discipline.
6. Solve problems within the context of the graphic communications discipline.

How to measure these outcomes effectively is a challenge. We do this in our program at ISU through a number of different measures. Students have to complete a senior project, we survey employers of our graduates, and we survey graduates themselves: the resulting data give us a pretty accurate picture of learning. But that’s not enough: once measured the program faculty must look for ways to improve the results over time. Check out more about ACCGC here: www.accgc.org.

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