Design Education and Learner Experiences in a Computer-Mediated Environment

Various online class types have changed student learning activities, exchanges with classmates online, and community formation during the pandemic. This chapter investigates the experience of learners in online design education and explored alternative tools for design education in a computer-mediated environment. Two studies have been conducted sequentially. It first identifies the problems associated with the switch in learning modalities by performing a questionnaire survey. This chapter then analyses how to overcome the problems by using new web-based tools in collaboration and communication through an experiment. The mediated environment by Miro has supported the design process in terms of learners’ set-up goals, reinterpretation of problems, cognitive engagement, and cognitive synchronization. This chapter demonstrates the possibility of effective media for online classes to overcome the limitations of studio-centred design education.