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Ukonu, Michael O.; Ohaja, Edith U.; Okeke, Somtochukwu V.; Okwumbu, Ruth O. – Cogent Education, 2021
The replacement of Times New Roman (TNR--serif) with Calibri (sans serif) as default typeface on Microsoft Office Word reflects the growing prevalence of screen-based reading. The change also points to a festering conflict in the literature on the readability and legibility of serif and sans serif typefaces in print and computer-based platforms.…
Descriptors: Layout (Publications), Printing, Visual Literacy, Visual Stimuli
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Sakr, Mona – Teaching in Higher Education, 2020
How can we make use of image-based social media to develop students' critical engagement with concepts like equality and diversity? In this paper, I draw on bell hooks' description of liberatory theorising to discuss findings from a project that involved 60 2nd year BA education students taking and sharing photographs through Instagram as part of…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Social Media, Photography, Concept Formation
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Martínez-Cardama, Sara; Caridad-Sebastián, Mercedes – Education for Information, 2019
Social networks and collaboration make it possible to offer new metacognitive horizons for comprehension of theories in a group of students considered digitally native. This study discusses the applicability of different forms of visualisation used as a constructivist learning technique on social networks. It presents the results of an innovative…
Descriptors: Social Media, Visual Literacy, Visualization, Constructivism (Learning)
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Lindner, Rachel; Méndez Garcia, Maria del Carmen – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2014
Positioned against the background of the Council of Europe's interest in developing intercultural competence through education, the study presented in this paper investigates the impact on intercultural visual literacy of the Council of Europe's "Images of Others--An Autobiography of Intercultural Encounters through Visual Media"…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Cultural Awareness, Visual Literacy, Preservice Teachers
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Kovalik, Cindy L.; Williams, Matthew A. – Journal of Visual Literacy, 2011
This exploratory study investigated student reaction to the use of cartoons as advance organizers for online discussions in an online course. A convenience sample of 15 students participated in the study by contributing cartoons, participating in online discussions, and completing a survey. Overall, survey results indicated student reaction to the…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Student Reaction, Online Courses, Cartoons
Downey, Greg; Gray, Tonia – Australian Association for Research in Education (NJ1), 2012
Web 2.0 technologies create opportunities for distance learning with particular promise for students while they are on international exchange. The current generation of students departing for study abroad is electronically literate or "digital natives", who have thoroughly integrated internet and communication technologies into their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Web 2.0 Technologies, Electronic Publishing
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Marback, Richard – College Composition and Communication, 2009
Recent appeal to the concept of design in composition studies benefits teaching writing in digital media. Yet the concept of design has not been developed enough to fully benefit composition instruction. This article develops an understanding of design as a matter of resolving wicked problems and makes a case for the advantages of this…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Design, Multimedia Materials, Ethics
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Simonson, Michael, Ed. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2014
For the thirty-seventh year, the Research and Theory Division and the Division of Instructional Design of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) sponsored the publication of these Proceedings. Papers published in this volume were presented at the annual AECT Convention in Jacksonville, Florida. This year's Proceedings…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Foreign Countries, Visualization
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Anderson, Rebecca; Puckett, Jane – Reading Research and Instruction, 2005
This study explores the usefulness of an online platform for capturing field experiences of inservice teachers enrolled in a graduate level literacy course. Four lessons related to the online field experience are offered: (1) instructors cannot adequately assess teachers without visual examples; (2) teachers and instructors need detailed…
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Theory Practice Relationship, Online Courses, Feedback
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers