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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
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
Callow, Jon – Reading Teacher, 2008
This article examines assessment of students' visual literacy. In the context of current theory of multimodal texts, the author presents key features for visual literacy assessment and how this assessment might be undertaken. The article then proposes a set of principles and a framework for developing assessment tasks in authentic classroom…
Descriptors: Visual Literacy, Literacy, Models, Grade 3
Wyatt-Smith, Claire; Kimber, Kay – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2009
This article explores the emergence of multimodality as intrinsic to the learning, teaching and assessment of English in the Twenty-First Century. With subject traditions tied to the study of language, literature and media, multimodal texts and new technologies are now accorded overdue recognition in English curriculum documents in several…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English Curriculum, Learning Modalities, Technology Uses in Education
Hartnell-Young, Elizabeth; Vetere, Frank – Curriculum Journal, 2008
This article explores a notion of "personalising learning" which puts the learner at the centre, supported by mobile technology and teacher mediation. It reports a small study in the Northern Territory of Australia, with indigenous students who were given mobile camera phones to capture aspects of their everyday lives and bring them into…
Descriptors: Photography, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries, Teacher Student Relationship
Livermore, Joan, Ed. – 1997
The word 'literacy' is a familiar one in relation to the forms of expression and structure of verbal language. In this collection of papers the definition of literacy is expanded as it can be applied to individual art forms of dance, drama, media, music, visual art, and design. These art forms are those specified as the subjects forming the Arts…
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Teachers, Dance, Design
Roberts, Susan; Philip, Robyn – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2006
The ability to interpret information from any source, and increasingly visual sources, is a vital skill for all graduates in contemporary culture. The development of the skills to read visual texts and communicate that understanding requires a certain level of critical thinking and reflection, skills which can only be developed over time, through…
Descriptors: Visual Literacy, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Early Childhood Education
Higgins, Leslie C. – Educational Communication and Technology: A Journal of Theory, Research, and Development, 1978
This study focused on the psychological process involved in drawing inferences from pictures. Nineteen reference tests and two tests of picture interpretation behavior were administered to a random sample of 95 children aged 10-12: the Production of Inference Tests (PIT) and the Discovery of Similarities Test (DST). (JEG)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Measurement, Educational Research, Elementary Education
Metallinos, Nikos; And Others – 1990
A study investigated the use of verbo-visual content in geography textbooks of various countries. Secondary school geography textbooks from Australia, Greece, Japan, Sweden, and the United States were examined. For each of the selected books, empirical data about the amount of texts, pictures, maps, and tables was gathered; contents were assessed;…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, Geography Instruction, Illustrations
Burbank, Lucille; Pett, Dennis W. – Instructional Innovator, 1983
This brief survey of successful visual literacy programs designed for students at the elementary and secondary level outlines projects to teach visual communication skills in Ohio, Indiana (Project Visual Understanding in Education/VUE), Virginia, Iowa (Media NOW), California, Canada, England, and Australia (Visual Education Curriculum Project).…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Photography
Pettersson, Rune; And Others – 1991
A study examined teachers' actual use of media and pictures in their teaching of geography in the secondary schools of five countries (a previous study focused on representations). About 180 teachers from Australia, Greece, Japan, Sweden, and the United States responded to a questionnaire concerning how often they used various types of media or…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, Geography Instruction, Illustrations
Callow, Jon – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2005
The inclusion of visual images in current educational literacy discussions tends to contextualise them within more semiotic, socio-critical and textually focussed theoretical traditions. These particular traditions privilege and emphasise the structures and "language-like" aspects of visual images, and include the broader social and…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Visual Aids, Visual Literacy, Nonverbal Communication
Russel, Anne L. – 1993
Five different ways that viewers conceptualize and take stances toward a photograph are identified from a study that involved 384 written responses to a photograph. Subjects included 63 faculty members from Queensland (Australia) Institute of Technology, 80 school teachers, 67 photographers, and 174 12-year-olds. In focus group discussions, 25…
Descriptors: Adults, Audience Response, College Faculty, College Students

Lichtman, Loy – Australian Art Education, 1996
Describes a Victoria University (Australia) program that combines art history, computer graphics, and studio practice. Discusses the social applications of technology, the creation and manipulation of computer imagery, and the ways that these impact traditional concepts of art. The program has proven particularly successful with female students.…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Activities, Art Education, Art Expression

Duncum, Paul – Australian Art Education, 1996
Advocates reconceptualizing visual arts as a core subject embodying key elements of experiential learning and critical thinking through an interdisciplinary approach. Illustrates this approach with a discussion of the interconnected issues surrounding family snapshots (social history, aesthetics, technological advancement). Discusses issues of…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Criticism, Art Education, Art Expression