I think most of us are convinced that conformance to web standards is a good thing. Professional designers will learn about web standards on the job but students have to be taught about web standards by their respective schools. To efficiently teach all students, it becomes imperative that we educate web design teachers in the usage of web standards. How should we go about educating educators about web standards?
I have a few suggestions:
- Create a ‘Continued Professional Education’ type examination for web design teachers. The Web Standards Projects’ Education Task Force could administer these exams. In fact a ‘Web Standards’ based exam will be useful for all design professionals.
- Encourage companies like Microsoft, Adobe and others to host sessions for web design teachers at their design conferences.
- Work with web design schools to change their curriculum, making it mandatory for teachers to teach web standards.
Other ideas?
