Canva launches online design school for everyone to learn to design
Canva has today unveiled the Canva Design School, a new platform, workshop series and teacher resource hub designed to increase the world’s visual literacy.
“Visual communication is as important as literacy in today’s workplace,” said Canva CEO Melanie Perkins. “For teachers inspiring a classroom, students trying to get their first job, and brands communicating through social media, visuals are the currency of today. They help you stand out, look professional and communicate.”
To achieve its aim of teaching the world to design, Canva has announced a series of pilot partnerships with organisations including Skillshare and Open Learning. The announcement comes after Canva reached 1 million users last week. Canva is also joining forces with General Assembly, the design, tech and business school to develop a series of workshops which will be held at their Sydney and Melbourne campuses.
Canva is already taught in hundreds of schools and universities around the globe. This new design curriculum and teacher notes will give teachers the materials they need to create powerful classes preparing their students for the visual world.
Canva is working with leading educators including Free Tech 4 Teachers, Richard Byrne and author of Cool Cat Teacher, Vicki Davis to shape workshop material and lesson plans that teachers can use in the classroom.
Canva’s inaugural course, Design Essentials, is a thirty part series of interactive tutorials and is available free of charge.
The key components of Canva’s Design School are:
• Interactive Online Design Course. Take interactive tutorials on branding, fonts, layouts, images and more. Track your progress and share your results with friends.
• Daily Design Publication. Read great content every day on Canva’s Design School blog. Our range of experts will share practical tips that you can use.
• Teacher Resources Portal and Lesson Plans. A comprehensive series of workshops and lesson plans designed for teachers to use in the classroom. Teach your students the importance of visual communication with practical classroom activities.
Access Canva’s Design School at http://designschool.canva.com
12 Comments
Great news. I love the Canva tutorials and I always learn something from doing them. That you are teaching great design in small bite size chunks of digestible information is long overdue.
This is awesome! Thanks so much for doing this. This is what people have been wanting. I do a lot of video tutorials on Canva because there is such a need to learn more about Canva. Thank you!
I actually use Canva too. It really helps my posts look much more appealing and it’s so simple! And for someone who is not adept at designing, this could actually help me a lot.
Most definitely! Visual content is a must on social media posts.
As a devout Photoshop user I have never in my life used Canva, but am seriously tempted to give it a serious try – looking at all its developments. Kudos!!!
I have been using canva to do designs for images that i use for my blog. Certainly the school will be of great benefit to me. Cheers!
Awesome. You guys inspire me a lot 🙂
Wow – this is awesome! Thanks for creating this ridiculously affordable (heck, primarily FREE99!) platform for creatives to learn how to become better at creating amazing visuals. You guys rock! 🙂
Excellent initiative!
YAY! I’ve been using Canva–my go to–but always want to keep learning!
I’m intrigued and excited about the Canva Design School. I will be sharing the links with my non-designer friends, and will be watching closely to see how they do. I want to live in a world where more people love and understand design. Thank you for creating this!
(and please let me know how I can pitch in 🙂
Exciting stuff. Time for this grey-haired oldie to grab a stubby & read more?