Interactive Media and Knowledge Environments (IMKE)

  Estonia

Tallinn

Term: Academic Year 

Description: Interactive Media and Knowledge Environments (IMKE) is an international new media master program offered by the department of Informatics at Tallinn University. The first student intake will take place in fall '06. The characteristic focus of the IMKE curriculum is on knowledge environments, digital interactive environments that host and facilitate individual and shared knowledge construction, in contexts such as educational environments, e-service environments, e-participation environments and game environments. According to the program goals, the graduates will possess a spectrum of critical knowledge as well as an individually tailored set of professional skills in the field of digital interactive media. Instruction will be in English. The requirements are BA or equivalent degree, experience or skills in some field of digital media, computing skills and proficiency in English.

Highlights: Goals

- A spectrum of critical knowledge and
- An individually tailored set of professional skills

The program aims to equip students with a range of competences, applicable not only in professions related directly with designing, planning, implementing, distributing and management of digital interactive media, but also in positions indirectly assuming visionary and critical knowledge of the field. The graduates will master a spectrum of critical knowledge and professional skills in the field of digital interactive media. The careers addressed may be related to leadership and management of governmental and municipal citizen service, education, citizen communities, social work and health services, interaction and communication industry or entrepreneurship. In addition, the education aims at a level of abstraction that allows the graduates to re-adapt and update their skills to rapidly changing career profiles in the international scene.   

Minimum Education: Bachelor of Arts

Cost in US$: 1500

Experience Required: no

This Program is open to American, Australian, Canadian, European, Kiwi, South African and Worldwide Participants.

Participants Travel to Estonia Independently

Typically Participants Work Independently

Application Process Involves:

• In-Person Interview Required
• Phone Interview
• Resume
• Written Application

Tallinn University, Department of Informatics's Mission Statement: The Institute of Informatics is a part of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences and is made up of the Chair of Informatics and the Lectureship of Computer Studies. The function of the Chair is to develop the curricula of Computer Science, to organise the training and to carry out scientific research. At the same time the chair administers computer-related training in the colleges of the university. The Lectureship of Computer Studies offers computer-related training to other specialities in the university. It also offers lower level and intermediate level Computer Science Studies (as a Minor Speciality) to other departments, especially to the students of Mathematics. In addition, the Department of Informatics organises computer-related in-service training to academic staff, administrative personnel, secondary school teachers and other people from outside the university.

Year Founded: 2006