Digital Media Design MSc (Online Learning) The University of Edinburgh

This innovative programme offers the best of studio-based design learning in an online context.

You will:

• work together, and with colleagues located on campus in Edinburgh, to realise imaginative design outcomes
• acquire wide skills in creative digital techniques
• investigate practice contexts for application across the arts, entertainment, performance and industry
• probe the social, cultural and commercial implications of such developments

The programme addresses the needs of practitioners, managers, decision-makers and educators who want to be informed by first-hand knowledge of the technical possibilities of digital technology and an awareness of social, cultural and business contexts.

Online learning

Teaching is through a combination of:

• streamed/podcasted lectures
• online seminars/tutorials
• virtual studio activities

The University of Edinburgh is currently ranked 15th in the World in the QS World University Rankings 2023.

The aims of the programme are to:

• develop specific knowledge and provide a broadly-based foundation in design technologies
• encourage the development of good design in its broadest sense
• foster the ability to work co-operatively in groups in the context of design
• develop understanding of the potential for new technologies
• enable the use of existing computer-aided design techniques in a creative way
• provide an analytical and critical framework to enable students to develop fresh thinking in design by building on their undergraduate or industrial experience
• assist students in discovering new creative uses of advanced technologies
• give students an understanding of the scope and limitations of computer applications in design
• encourage the development of business and entrepreneurial skills in working with digital media

The prospects for employment are diverse.

Recent graduates from this programme, and the closely allied on-campus programme in Design & Digital Media, are now working in:

• multimedia and web design for architectural and urban design practices
• advertising
• computer system design and management
• tertiary level teaching
• gaming
• animation
• web design
• advertising
• social media marketing
• art

The programme is also ideal if you are considering continuing on to advanced research at a doctoral level.

Programme structure

Projects bring out original thinking and independent achievement within a framework of independent study, virtual team-working and creative ability.

You will also engage closely online with colleagues following our highly successful programme in Design & Digital Media.

Year 1

• Media and Culture (Online Distance Learning)
• Design for Interactive Media (Online Learning)
• Introduction to Digital Design (Online Distance Learning)
• Digital Media Design Final Project (Online Distance Learning)
• Game Design Studio (Online Distance Learning)
• Digital Playgrounds for the Online Public (Online Distance Learning)
• Dynamic Web Design (Online Distance Learning)
• Design, Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ODL)
• Game Design Studio (Online Distance Learning)
• Digital Playgrounds for the Online Public (Online Distance Learning)
• Dynamic Web Design (Online Distance Learning)