Michael Collins
- Associate Teaching Professor of Art; Digital Arts & Media Design; Digital Multimedia Design
- Email msc227@psu.edu
Biography
Michael Collins is an Associate Teaching Professor in the School of Visual Arts where he teaches courses in digital art and design. Collins has been designing and creating online learning technology for over a decade and is an advocate for the use of open-source technology in online education. His most recent collaboration includes a project called OER Schema – a project that fosters free access to knowledge by introducing digital teaching pedagogy to the semantic web. Collins has produced a wide breadth of creative work including interactive art installations, web and product design, concept design, 3D animation and real-time environments, digital fabrication projects, and enjoys woodworking in his spare time.
His most recent exhibition work centers around digital privacy, identity, and security and he co-authored a book chapter, Artist Research as Praxis and Pedagogy, published in Teaching Artistic Research (De Gruyter, 2020). He also solo-authored a book chapter, Metadata for Digital Teaching: Enabling Remix for Open Educational Resources, published in The Routledge Handbook of Remix Studies and Digital Humanities (Routledge, 2021). Collins is the lead faculty and curriculum coordinator for the multi-college World Campus Digital Multimedia Design B.Des program and enjoys teaching art and design to students in a variety of subjects and fields. He has been a long-time sub-committee volunteer for ACM SIGGRAPH, an organization whose mission is to nurture, champion, and connect researchers and practitioners of Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques.