Final year undergraduate and postgraduate students in Landscape Architecture and Garden Art & Design will present their design portfolios and showcase the design process to their community clients and other invited guests in the New Year. The students have worked with community clients to produce designs for gardens, outdoor learning spaces and therapeutic gardens. This year the students are working with Eureka and the Hollybank Trust, both of which are Leeds Metropolitan University partnership organisations. In addition the students have designed areas at Grimesdyke School, Skelton Grange Environment Centre, Shine and an urban project in Castleford.
What the course offers The Oxford College of Garden Design online diploma students will experience: * Interactive video tutorials/podcasts * A personal tutor * A virtual classroom; peer-to-peer interaction via online forums online community based learning * Multi application lectures ability to listen to lectures on your ipod/phone/MP3 player * Online galleries featuring ground plan designs, planting plans, construction drawings and more * Monthly webinars - live video streams and question and answer session * CAD (computer aided design) and modelling interactive video tutorials The diploma is perfect for students who are unable to travel, geographically disparate or who simply want to study from home using progressive techniques. Lectures are time released to co-inside with the classroom taught program; so both online and face-to-face students learn together. This new way of learning is also good for the environment, significantly cutting back on carbon footprints/the need to travel both internationally and locally. Duncan Heather, Principal of Oxford College of Garden Design has partnered with Internet entrepreneur Elspeth Briscoe to pioneer interactive learning in garden design.
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