Leveraging Existing Online Platforms to Support Knowledge Exchange Between Visual Arts Educators

Online education is experiencing a surge in technical advancement and adoption in the post-COVID world. Many universities are implementing digitally mediated courses. Art education is catching up with this development’s pace; however, transitioning from in-person to online courses is fraught with complications. This paper proposes using open-source platforms to share knowledge about visual art education methodologies. We propose a framework for educators to quantitatively express the phenomenology of digitally mediated art education to improve knowledge transmission in online academic settings. We suggest using data visualizations and existing social platforms to structure, record, and share data about educational patterns to reach the defined objectives (Google Sheets and Observable Notebooks). When individual instructors have defined, recorded, and shared their findings on a relevant question, other instructors can follow, improve, and modulate their pattern, enhancing the scope of the original question and creating communities around enhancing pedagogical practices.