Online College Review - Art Institute of Pittsburgh Online

A comprehensive glimpse into the realm of distance learning and online degree programs as related to the fine arts degree field.

Fast Facts

- Founded in 1921, AI has been instructing students in artistic crafts for nearly a century

- Fast paced terms shifting every few weeks

- Acceptance of request to transfer credits are not guaranteed

- Regional Accreditation

- Average fulltime cost per year $12,168.00

- Over 27 degree & certificate programs and more than 45 locations

- The online programs have only been offered for just over a decade

School Info

Scholarships Offered- Yes; Scholarships Vary

Loans/Grants Offered- Pell, Stafford, PLUS, and private loans through specific lenders

Religious Affiliation- None

Traditional Campus- Yes

Online Only Degrees- Yes

Career Planning- Yes

Flexible Classes- Yes

Available Degree Fields- Advertising, Culinary Management, Fashion & Retail Management, Game Art & Design, Hotel & Restaurant Management, Graphic Design, Media Arts & Animation, Interior Design, Kitchen and Bath Design, Photography, Web Design & Interactive Media, and a host of certificate and diploma programs

 

 

Digital Storytelling in Academia

Digital storytelling has been adopted in higher education, particularly more so in the United States, where some educators use it as a method of building engagement and multimedia literacy. While the Bay Area Video Coalition employs digital storytelling as a means of engaging and empowering at-risk youth, faculty and graduate students at the University of Houston have created a website called the Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling which focuses on the use of Digital Storytelling by teachers and their students across multiple content areas and grade levels. Ball State University has even developed a masters program in Digital Storytelling, as does the University of Oslo.

Digital story and storytelling is more than just a technology or an art form, it is about engaging community, promoting intergenerational communication, as well as providing an innovative method of historical research.

 

Teaching and Learning Digital Storytelling : MITMuseum and Veria Central Public Library

MITMuseum without Walls

Based on location-based storytelling, MIT Museum is leading an innovative location-based storytelling research project, Museum Without Walls (MWOW), to put history and science in your hand and turn the world into a museum. The goal is to help reveal the hidden and the extraordinary in the MIT landscape by encouraging people to learn about their surroundings. It begins with an Institute-based effort but the project is pioneering the development of technologies as a model usable by any institution or community.

Veria Central Public Library

A collaborative effort between public libraries and museums to provide new, informal and accessible learning opportunities. Library and museum staff in the four regions of the Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany and Greece have been trained to train and support groups of individuals from migrant communities in the art, skills and technologies involved in the creation of digital stories.

Digital Storytelling in Academ