053: A Design Educator’s View on Front-end Development, Portfolio Courses and More with Yana Sakellion

Yana Sakellion, Associate Professor at the American University in Washington D.C., joins Gary Rozanc to discuss the Student Web Awards and why in an open source industry with a lot of self taught professionals, the there is such a lack of sharing of course material and student work amongst interactive and web design educators. Yana also shares her perspective on the elusive balance of visual design and front-end development training in design programs. Finally, Yana also discusses a variety of ideas including the value of using WordPress templates, where to introduce portfolio courses, and approaches to web design in the classroom.

You can listen to 053: A Design Educator’s View on Front-end Development, Portfolio Courses and More with Yana Sakellion online on Radio and Podcast. Open the player on this page to stream the available audio.

053: A Design Educator’s View on Front-end Development, Portfolio Courses and More with Yana Sakellion is an episode from Design Edu Today by Design Edu Today.

This episode is 0:57:46 long.

This episode was published on Nov 28, 2017.

Yes. Use the heart button on the episode page to add it to your favorite episodes list.

Yes. This page shows related episodes from Design Edu Today when more episodes are available from the podcast feed.