A Study of the Development of Digital-Media Education from the Communication Education Perspective in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Chih-Ming Chen, 陳志銘
• Other Authors: Chaoyun Chaucer Liang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2002
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/79359532096121363296

碩士 === 元智大學 === 資訊傳播學系 === 90 === The development of multimedia has changed the way people communicated. Their characteristics of media integration, digitalization, and interactivity have a great impact on the communication education. This paper is aimed at exploring the potential development of multimedia education in Taiwan based upon the perspective of the present communication education. The main research methods of this study are in-depth interviews and along with participant observation. After interviewing scholars, findings can be concluded as follows: 1.The characteristics of digital-media converged and integrated affect course planning of communication education, type of the facilities, resources integration and teacher qualified. 2.When department of communication modifies its name to match the rapid development of digital-media, problems of name identification show up. The department has to maintain its former features while changing to new names. What makes the former department to spread out new digital-media related department is the acquirement of more resources. The direction of newly established digital-media related department depends on school administration. 3.The course planning of digital-media education has to predict the demand of human resource in the coming years. 4.In the field of digital-media, creative people with integrating ability among different media are required. 5.The reason for related communication departments to adopt the course program is to make them more elastic. Owing to the media convergence, communication departments offer a general course for all the students in the first two years. Other reasons including the faculty’s background and transformation, the resource apportioned, the administrative policy and the departmentalism. 6.When department of communication changes to new digital-media related department will confront difficulties such as the teacher qualified, the vision of the president or dean, the constraint of budget and the course planning. 7.Most of the scholars think that’s unsuitable to promote digital-media technique professional license. 8.Most of the scholars think that’s unsuitable to encourage the establishment of related Digital-media department through government policy.