AIFIA | Curriculum

What is the Educational Curriculum?

The Institute plans to develop a recommended curriculum framework to assist instructors in planning IA classes. It will include an outline of educational topics and a process for applying the framework.

Benefits

Overall improvement the quality of information architecture education
Assist instructors in creating and refining curricula over time
To some extent, establish a standard educational core of information architecture concepts and skills

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Daily progress of this initiative is tracked at the IA Curriculum page of the AIfIA Projects Wiki.

Until the framework is released, join the IA Education mailing list or see the syllabi below for examples of existing classes:

“Information architecture is the intangible base of any information space which drives the intentional user experience. One can 'feel' such an architecture as the distinctive feature in usable, useful and desirable information spaces. Information architecture starts where randomness stops.”

—Peter Bogaards