According to Jerry Laiserin in his article "From atelier to e-telier: virtual design studios" there is a new tool to study design for architecture students . This new tool is called Virtual Design Studios (VDS), it is a virtual place where students can work on a design problem together, without being on the same place or at the same time, they can receive comments from critics around the world and much more.
The design collaboration may be single-task (superposition of the views of all participants about the design problem) or multiple-task (each participant work on a particular portion of the design); and the communication may be synchronous (all the participants are working together at the same time on a design problem) or asynchronous (each participant work on a design problem but not necessarly at the same time).
The VDS is a great tool for design students around the world, and it is in fact being used in many universities like: Kumamoto University, UBC and many others in Mexico, Argentina and Chile.
Opinion: I think that VDS is a good tool for architecture students, is a different and cool way to learn, and to share comments about a design with other people around the world. With it, we can learn more having different views from many students, and it can help us have a better result in our designs.
