I recently spoke with Morten Sohlberg, President and CEO of
Sessions.edu, about the job market for Web professionals. Sessions.edu
is an online educational institution for Web designers offering
excellent training and certifications in Web design, graphic design,
digital design, multimedia, or new media marketing.
The concept of a design school conducting classes online begs the
question, Can you really study something creative in an online
atmosphere? The answer is undeniably yes, if you take Sohlbergs
approach to education. Sohlberg, an award-winning designer who has
worked in the design field in Paris, Milan, South America, and New York,
says having good people creating and delivering superior content is the
key to successful online education. The most important thing is not
really the interactivity, the multimedia experience, or even the
technology, it is the ability and the resources of an organization like
ours to pull together a very large team of people, said Sohlberg. The
team-oriented approach brings together the best minds in the industry,
as opposed to the traditional classroom method where a single instructor
designs the course, pulls together the content, and delivers it.
Sohlberg compares this approach to the movie industry, which involves
hundreds of people to create a single motion picture. A course at
Sessions.edu is similar. Behind the instructor, a large team of content
providers, specialists, and industry experts all work towards the same
goal.
Despite being a visual and creative field by nature, theres no reason
you cant study design through a Web-based course. Sohlberg says, Even
if you are in front of a computer screen, the content that youre
absorbing is bound to be so much better than what one person can bring
into a classroom. It has to do with respecting the content of education,
it has nothing to do with how youre delivering it.
What about demand? Despite the flattening out of the dot-com economy,
Sohlberg says, Demand for web professionals both on the back end and
the front end will continue to increase. Its already huge.
For $1399, you can get both the training and the certificate. Training
involves four required and five elective courses.
