The Importance of Using Visual Communication
in Classroom and Online Environments
By Jay Sternickle
Produced at Western Illinois University
Macomb, Illinois
This research paper examines the need to incorporate more visual information into classroom and online learning environments. Students today are surrounded by technology that bombards them with visual information. Images flash across their televisions, computers, and smart phones every minute of every day.
in Classroom and Online Environments
By Jay Sternickle
Produced at Western Illinois University
Macomb, Illinois
This research paper examines the need to incorporate more visual information into classroom and online learning environments. Students today are surrounded by technology that bombards them with visual information. Images flash across their televisions, computers, and smart phones every minute of every day.
Despite this, many classroom instruction is limited to lectures, and many online learning environments are little more than digital textbooks filling screen after screen with only words. Educators need to take advantage of the eye-minded nature of today’s students.
“We are becoming a visually mediated society,” wrote Paul Martin Lester. “For many, understanding of the world is being accomplished, not through words, but by reading images.”
Numerous studies have shown that materials that utilize visual communication are often more effective than materials that rely solely on text to communicate. This paper examines some of arguments that have been made both for and against the increased use of visual information in the classroom and virtual world.
Read the full text of this Research Paper. (CLICK HERE).
“We are becoming a visually mediated society,” wrote Paul Martin Lester. “For many, understanding of the world is being accomplished, not through words, but by reading images.”
Numerous studies have shown that materials that utilize visual communication are often more effective than materials that rely solely on text to communicate. This paper examines some of arguments that have been made both for and against the increased use of visual information in the classroom and virtual world.
Read the full text of this Research Paper. (CLICK HERE).
