Looking for an updated college list that offer Masters In Interaction Design / HCD - Etc..
14 Jan 2011 - 11:41am
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Preston McCauley
2009
I've been searching high and low for a good list of colleges that offer an all Online Only Masters in the UX, UI, Interaction design field.
Anyone know of or have a list? There was one on here at one time but it doesn't seem to be update.
Thanks!
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There are VERY few online only programs in UX.
there are a couple of online programs in HCI. I don't have direct links but you might want to do some searches.
Renselear Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and Iowa have HCI programs that are online.
Do people know of others?
There are many more online graphic design and interactive design programs.
-- dave
Iowa doesn't have any HCI programs, they do have some classes in the subject. Do you mean Iowa State?
--DED
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 10:52 PM, Dave Malouf <dave.ixd@gmail.com> wrote:
Yes, Iowa State. It's an MS program
http://www.hci.iastate.edu/Academics/msonline.php
-- dave
RPI's website appears the degree is still active: http://www.llc.rpi.edu/pl/ms-human-computer-interaction-hci-650
Last I checked ( probably 5 years ago ) the online program required a stretch of time on campus. I forget exactly how long. Think it was btwn 4 and 8 weeks
On Jan 16, 2011, at 2:44 AM, Jennifer Ash wrote:
> RPI's website appears the degree is still active: http://www.llc.rpi.edu/pl/ms-human-computer-interaction-hci-650 [1] > >
When I was in undergrad taking graduate classes in the program, it had a recommended two classroom visits for online students. I believe this could be negated on an individual basis.
None of these programs have an online option per the question.
Yeah - I'm looking for strictly online. Which in this day and age should be possible. I"ve been in the UX / IX / Usability field for a long time. This is more of a personal goal to get my masters.
With family, full time work, part time consulting, and the like. I can't go off to a college. I can however take the time to study online. And of course video conference etc. I may even teach :)
At any rate. I am looking specifically for online courses only.
Iowa State's program is interesting but it requires a single presentation in person of your final project. That should be doable.
Definitely worth digging deeper.
-- dave
Here is one I have found so far:
Depaul University
Chicago
http://www.cdm.depaul.edu/academics/Pages/MSinHuman-ComputerInteraction.aspx
The search continues:
I took a deeper dive into the course descriptions and requirements of the IOWa program. These classes don't seem relastic to what the field actually expects you to do. No offense IOWA state, but looks like your tried to add / adapt existing computer programming classes to fill out your curriculum. A more appropriate class would be analysis of international design patterns, or perhaps cultural design methodolgies, Why would I need to or want to use a nearly non-used language such as python?
HCI/ENGL/LING 520. Computational Analysis of English, 3 cr.
This course is an introduction to computational linguistics and natural language processing with emphasis on symbolic approaches to language. Throughout the course, students will familiarize themselves with the field of computational linguistics in general and learn some of the basic ideas and techniques used to enable computers to “understand” language and/or use it intelligently otherwise. Students will also build simple natural language processing systems using Python programming language. They will also discuss their completed projects in the class periodically. Evaluation is based on a final take-home examination and the course projects/presentations. No background in Python
programming is assume
Food for thought.
This is several months after the actual post, but in case someone reads this : Preston has some misconceptions about what this course offers. The program at ISU is an HCI degree. In HCI, programming is essential to prototyping and then testing your prototype in an iterative fashion. Computation Linguistics is an elective that has been beneficial to HCI in the past. And Python is a very well used language. Everyone from Google to ( name a famous tech company) uses Python in both research and production. It is also frequently used in Medical research, especially BioInformatics.
Preston,
I think that's a cross-departmental elective. Some students may go on for a PhD and that may fit well with their research plans. At the masters level, a lot of responsibility falls on the student to select the electives that best suit future goals, be it professional or academic. So for you, perhaps it would mean taking a design course or a behavioral science course. You probably don't have to stick with HCI-only electives. I looked at the Iowa State program at one point for a friend and thought it seemed reasonable, affordable, and relevant. I'm comparing it to my Carnegie Mellon HCI experience.
Check out Bentley as well. They do allow out-of-state students to take their masters program remotely. Massachusetts students are expected to study on campus.
I am considering the Bentley Human Factors MS program online. Has anyone here been a Bentley student? Online? Any thoughts on this program? http://www.bentley.edu/graduate/ms/mshfid.cfm
Have you tried RIT's HCI program? (http://www.rit.edu/emcs/ptgrad/_program_detail.php?id=43) Not a lot of choices out there, but RIT seemed to be the best fit for me. I could have gone for Stanford's program, but I couldn't afford it. I think that they have a lot of demand in this program but not enough instructors to teach the online stuff. Some of the instructors are from Xerox and Kodak. The online experience is based primarily on a Learning Management System called Desire 2 Learn, and live/recorded lectures using Adobe Connect. One of the master projects that I am working on is how to improve the eLearning experience by incorporating mobility and other forms of context aware methods (http://thomas-yung.posterous.com).