Some general questions for the community to help make this curriculum outline better:
1) How could this curriculum be tied to artistic and creative cognitive processes? (convergent and divergent thinking, conceptual blending, honing theory, etc...)
2) How could this curriculum be tied to existing educational theories? (Bloom's Taxonomy, Constructivist Theory, etc...)
3) What modes of assessment could be used? (summative assessment, authentic assessment, etc...)
4) The outline posted presents a rather linear course progression. Are there other organization/information visualization paradigms that could be used instead? (product space localization, network diagrams, hierarchical clustering & dendrograms)
5) What artistic, logical, and mathematical skills should be considered prerequisites to this curriculum? (drawing, photography, first order logic, functions and relations, etc...)
6) Are there topics that have been given too much time? too little time?
7) Do you think a student who does well in this curriculum would be ready for employment in a creative media company?
The idea is to first get a course progression sequence and timeline (that the community agrees could work), then create a syllabus for each course (specific topics, recommended resources, and assessments). This curriculum outline assumes that after a student learns a product, they still know it in future courses. So, if Kuler is introduced in the first Illustrator course, it is assumed students know it in later Illustrator & Photoshop courses - even though the Kuler icon isn't shown for later courses.





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Posted Mar 21, 2013
I would like to introduce a draft of what a four-year Adobe curriculum could potentially look like. http://edex.adobe.com/resource/538a03/.
Disclaimer: Several of the products on this list I have never used, or know only slightly. If the community would like to take ownership of this curriculum outline and fix it up, please do!
Year 1: Basic artistic competency.
Year 2: Advanced artistic competency.
Year 3: Basic programming competency.
Year 4: Advanced programming competency.