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Melissa Ballesteros-Mejía; María Angélica Madero – Journal of Visual Literacy, 2024
Images are central to our understanding of and learning about our world. We argue that visual training needs to be improved in the higher education system to enhance the potential of visual thinking to mediate productively our relationship with the context we inhabit. Initiatives from the social sciences and humanities since the end of the twenty…
Descriptors: Visual Literacy, Visual Learning, Interdisciplinary Approach, Higher Education
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Michael, Kathy – Campus-Wide Information Systems, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify student and staff experiences with online learning at higher education (HE) using the software Elluminate Live! Design/methodology/approach: This paper adopts a qualitative approach, focusing on the reflections of participants (student and teacher) collated over a 12 month period of piloting online…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Electronic Learning, Feedback (Response), Curriculum Development
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Simonson, Michael, Ed.; Seepersaud, Deborah, Ed. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2021
For the forty-fourth time, the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is sponsoring the publication of these Proceedings. Papers published in this volume were presented online and onsite during the annual AECT Convention. Volume 1 contains papers dealing primarily with research and development topics. Papers dealing with…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Feedback (Response), Course Evaluation
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Avgerinou, Maria D. – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2009
In this article, the author has advanced the view that the world is currently on the threshold of a new status quo--the hegemony of the image. Yet, this seems a mixed blessing, for people, and especially young people, are not equipped with the necessary critical viewing and thinking skills to survive it. Nevertheless, this unfortunate situation…
Descriptors: Definitions, Critical Viewing, Lifelong Learning, Visual Literacy
Skaggs, Calvin – ADE Bulletin, 1981
Suggests that verbal and visual literacy are interdependent and that English departments should take on the task of heightening visual literacy. (AEA)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, English Departments, Higher Education, Television
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Rehman, Sharaf N.; Hanks, William E. – Journalism Educator, 1985
Presents a structure for a film and video production course, with emphasis on three types of literacy: visual, verbal, and technical. (HTH)
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum Development, Film Production, Higher Education
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Metros, Susan E. – Theory Into Practice, 2008
Contemporary culture has become increasingly dependent on the visual, especially for its capacity to communicate instantly and universally. Advances in technology fueled this shift. Students must learn to cope with and intelligently contribute to a culture rife with easy access to the visually rich Web, photo dependant social networks, video…
Descriptors: Visual Literacy, Media Literacy, Multimedia Instruction, Computer Literacy
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Osborne, Brian S. – Canadian Social Studies, 1998
Discusses the importance of cultural geography for understanding the environment and of teaching geography as a form of visual literacy. Notes different concepts of landscape, including landscapes as physical geography, landscapes as texts, and landscapes as a process of identity formation. Examines cultural expressions of geographic visual…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Schamber, Linda – 1987
Suggesting that a separate accreditation criterion for visual literacy proposed for journalism and mass communication schools is insufficient and inappropriate, this paper proposes that the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) develop and support a program promoting visual literacy as a curriculum standard.…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accreditation (Institutions), Course Content, Curriculum Development
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Risatti, Howard – Journal of Aesthetic Education, 1987
This paper focuses on the cognitive and social functions of art and the role that art plays in communicating social and personal values. It shows how art criticism can play an important part in the education of all students by fostering critical thinking related to art history, art production, and aesthetics. (Author/JDH)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Education, Art History, Cognitive Psychology
Ruby, Jay; Chalfen, Richard – 1973
The exploration of nonverbal forms of culture and communication has led to the development of visual anthropology courses within the anthropology department at Temple University. Visual anthropology is conceptualized as the study of human nonlinguistic forms of communication involving film making for data collecting and analysis. Several areas of…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Course Content, Curriculum Development, Educational Innovation
Robinson, Rhonda S.; Manlove, Linda – 1993
Technology, software, and design activities that have been used to create presentations for a class in visual literacy taught to graduate students in the instructional technology program of Northern Illinois University are described. In the past, the language of visuals was introduced through a slide and tape produced for the class. An additional…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Curriculum Development, Databases, Educational Technology
Christopherson, Jerry T. – 1997
Current research at Brigham Young University (BYU) determined that basic visual literacy instruction is needed in disciplines outside of the arts. Following a needs assessment survey of BYU's 83 departments, an honors general education Arts and Letters course in visual literacy was piloted in the 1996 winter semester. Lectures were presented by…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Curriculum Development, Departments, Desktop Publishing
Kerns, H. Dan; Johnson, Nial – 1995
Recognizing the decline in student visual communication skills, faculty from different disciplines collaborated in the design of a visual literacy course. The visual literacy skills developed in the course are that students learn in the following ways: (1) through faculty presentation and demonstration of the various tools available; (2) with…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Centers, Communication Skills, Computer Uses in Education, Curriculum Development
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Walker, Alice D., Comp. – 1993
Two bibliographies of publications from the International Visual Literacy Association (IVLA) are presented. The first covers the period from 1983 through 1989 and lists 261 publications from the IVLA at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. The second covers from 1990 through 1993 and lists 201 publications. The comprehensive…
Descriptors: Art Education, Bibliographies, Critical Viewing, Curriculum Development
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