Reform and Innovation of Art Design Education in the Information Age

Abstract

In the information age, human social activities have undergone major changes. Art design education plays an important role in social innovation and talent cultivation. In particular, the integration of technology and art by STEAM education concept has a great impact on the cultivation of innovation ability. However, China's art design education also faces problems such as teaching mode, information acquisition, achievement sharing and transformation. By studying and analyzing the current situation of art design education in China, this paper sorts out the existing problems, proposes innovative reform methods and paths, and conducts practical exploration, aiming at verifying ideas and effects, and providing reference for improving the level of art design education and the cultivation of innovative talents in colleges and universities. Keywords—Art design education, Information age, Reform, Innovate In 2011, Art was officially established as the thirteenth independent discipline in China. The importance of art talents in national development and construction was established from the national strategic level. Art supports people's purposeful creative activities. In the new era of innovation becoming the core competitiveness of the nation and the country, fully understanding and applying art is conducive to develop cultural industries with Chinese characteristics and realize the 2025 plan for Chinese manufacturing. Information technology has developed rapidly in the 21st century. Since the industrial revolution, human society has ushered in the information revolution. Technologies such as the Internet and artificial intelligence have greatly boosted productivity. Human will usher in the third wave of revolution.[1] Art design education is also facing the impact of the wave of information technology. The traditional teaching model is no longer applicable to the information age. However, how to reform the traditional teaching methods and form a new method of "Internet plus Art design education" is the key to cultivate the art designing talent under the information age. I. THE STATUS OF CHINESE ART DESIGN EDUCATION China's design education has experienced three different stages from beginning to the present, namely “graphic pattern”, “art and craft” and “art design”. [2]In the 1980s, China introduced Bauhaus and other Western design education models from abroad, began to promote the "three major components" education concept, [3]and built a related curriculum system about it. For example, sketching, color, and model making were set as the basic courses to cultivate students' ability to shape and aesthetics. After initial familiarity with the modeling language, teachers arranged design tasks according to the course content or theme, and students designed and created accordingly. In recent years, as the main driving force for the development of manufacturing industry, art design has received more and more attention. The market also needs many art design talents. Therefore, many colleges and universities have opened art design majors. According to statistics, more than 1,000 colleges and universities across the country have opened this major, including art colleges and many comprehensive colleges. [4]However, in order to quickly solve the problem of insufficient talents, the colleges and universities ignores the essence of design education, only to build cars behind closed doors. They do not want to spend time to improve the quality of faculty, update the teaching content, and combine new technologies with art in a timely manner. They just follow the methods introduced in the last century, which leads to students learn knowledge superficially, stop in textbooks, lack solid theoretical knowledge and practical experience, think rigid, lack sufficient innovation ability, and cannot match individual ability to market demand. Under such circumstances, there is still a shortage of design talents. Colleges and universities ignore the problem at all, and blindly expand the number of enrollment. These form a vicious circle that design students are increasing in number but there is shortage of designers who really fit the market. The information age has arrived. It is necessary to see the nature of the problem and start from solving existing design education problems and improving the quality of education, so as to cultivate talents that meet the requirements of the times. 8th International Conference on Education and Management (ICEM 2018) Copyright © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research, volume 75