38 min

Lifelong Learning — Rob Blain, Professor of Multimedia Design‪.‬ How'd We Get Here?

    • Design

In this episode, I speak to Rob Blain, professor of multimedia and design about lifelong learning and how we might iterate ourselves to evolve as designers and people. We discuss how we wen through our academic career learning new things to ultimately create our own path towards design and teaching. Rob shares his thoughts on what propelled him towards his path in design and education, setting milestones to attain your career goals, comparing motivations for learning as an adult learner versus our earlier academic years, having a growth mindset and how we might promote lifelong learning in our learning environment, Rewarding students for process and developing their ideas into executable products, and much more.

In this episode, I speak to Rob Blain, professor of multimedia and design about lifelong learning and how we might iterate ourselves to evolve as designers and people. We discuss how we wen through our academic career learning new things to ultimately create our own path towards design and teaching. Rob shares his thoughts on what propelled him towards his path in design and education, setting milestones to attain your career goals, comparing motivations for learning as an adult learner versus our earlier academic years, having a growth mindset and how we might promote lifelong learning in our learning environment, Rewarding students for process and developing their ideas into executable products, and much more.

38 min