信息时代背景中的艺术设计教育和艺术教育有不同的范畴和特点,不能混同。艺术设计的开放性和商业化属性要求现代艺术设计教育必须重视“交际能力”的教育。本文阐述了艺术设计“交际能力”的内容,课程改革中对“交际能力”的关注,指出“交际能力”教育是现代艺术设计发展的必然要求,是信息时代艺术设计教育面临的新课题。 In the information era, art design education and art education have different categories and characteristics, which can not be mixed. The openness and commercialization of art design require modern art and design education to emphasize “communicative competence” education. This article expounds the content of communicative competence in art design and the concern for communicative competence in the curriculum reform. It points out that communicative competence education is an inevitable requirement for the development of modern art design and a new topic for art design education in the information age.