Visually Intensive Learning

By David Vogt on December 28, 2019

The Visually Intensive Learning (VIL) marketplace is very large and can be difficult to define. It can go as far as to remove text completely from learning, or make information more visually appealing. It is not a category limited to visual learners, but rather is useful all learners. From AR, VR, and MR to YouTube, to infographics, and everything in between; there are many platforms that can be utilized for VIL. When learning is happening on a screen, VIL can be utilized to better grab the attention of learners, especially on smaller screens.

Opportunity Statement

Whether the focus of a venture, or a small piece, new and mature companies a like need to create visually appealing products and provide the tools for teachers to provide visually appealing lessons. This market space is growing rapidly and expands into corporate presentations and marketing as well. Plain text just doesn’t cut it anymore.

Additional Resources

https://etec522-visual-intensive-learning.weebly.com/

Laal, M., & Ghodsi, S. M. (2012). Benefits of collaborative learning. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 31, 486-490.

https://www.thoughtco.com/understanding-visual-learners-7998

​Vanichvasin, P. (2013). Enhancing the quality of learning through the use of infographics as visual communication tool and learning tool. In Proceedings ICQA 2013 international conference on QA culture: Cooperation or competition (p. 135).

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9 Sep Posted on Visually Intensive Learning

I teach photography and communications media. One of my goals is to get students to communicate without using written words so much. I get them to use an epic set of photos, infographics, and directing a short video to tell a story and get a message across to a certain audience/viewer. Our world is so fast paced and busy people don’t have time to read a whole set of instructions let alone read a whole essay to receive a message. Rather they look at the pictures to figure out the instructions or watch a quick video tutorial. Everyone has a phone at their side and they are constantly scrolling on different apps, if they get bored they click out of it. Most people get their news information by looking at the title and solely reading the title for the article. The attention span we have is very limited, that is why this VIL is an important part of future education - it is a way to grab our attention and keep us invested.Kids are more likely to look at the pictures in the textbook rather than actually read it. However, VIL is not just putting on a 2 hour documentary for your students to watch. In order for it to be impactful, it need to be short, flashy and get the point across as quick as possible. Think tik Tok for example, the maximum video is 60 seconds, if it doesn’t grab one's attention in the first 10 seconds one just scrolls past it and onto the next. This puts negative pressure on many different sectors of our economy from education to business if we don’t learn from this and incorporate VIL into the classroom as well as business models as the consumer/learner will lose interest. Videos are becoming almost essential for business to have on their websites. Trendy instagram feeds are essential for drawing consumers to your products or services. VIL incorporates many different emerging markets into one, linking it to VR, social media and gamification just to name a few . VIL isn’t just restricted to the walls of my photo and video this emerging market allows kids and adults with various learning needs to be successful. Students with dyslexia or ELL are able to see and visualize their math problem without it just being numbers on a paper, rather it could be a “mathletics” game. English stories become movies, youtube videos and pictures. Science problems become more than just a textbook reading and rather a science experiment or 3D model printing. I feel like Visually intensive learning is a cross curricular market and a paramount to one's success in the classroom and stretching far to the business sector.

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I teach photography and communications media. One of my goals is to get students to communicate without using written words so much. I get them to use an epic set of photos, infographics, and directing a short video to tell a story and get a message across to a certain audience/viewer. Our world is so fast paced and busy people don’t have time to read a whole set of instructions let alone read a whole essay to receive a message. Rather they look at the pictures to figure out the instructions or watch a quick video tutorial. Everyone has a phone at their side and they are constantly scrolling on different apps, if they get bored they click out of it. Most people get their news information by looking at the title and solely reading the title for the article. The attention span we have is very limited, that is why this VIL is an important part of future education - it is a way to grab our attention and keep us invested.Kids are more likely to look at the pictures in the textbook rather than actually read it. However, VIL is not just putting on a 2 hour documentary for your students to watch. In order for it to be impactful, it need to be short, flashy and get the point across as quick as possible. Think tik Tok for example, the maximum video is 60 seconds, if it doesn’t grab one's attention in the first 10 seconds one just scrolls past it and onto the next. This puts negative pressure on many different sectors of our economy from education to business if we don’t learn from this and incorporate VIL into the classroom as well as business models as the consumer/learner will lose interest. Videos are becoming almost essential for business to have on their websites. Trendy instagram feeds are essential for drawing consumers to your products or services. VIL incorporates many different emerging markets into one, linking it to VR, social media and gamification just to name a few . VIL isn’t just restricted to the walls of my photo and video this emerging market allows kids and adults with various learning needs to be successful. Students with dyslexia or ELL are able to see and visualize their math problem without it just being numbers on a paper, rather it could be a “mathletics” game. English stories become movies, youtube videos and pictures. Science problems become more than just a textbook reading and rather a science experiment or 3D model printing. I feel like Visually intensive learning is a cross curricular market and a paramount to one's success in the classroom and stretching far to the business sector.

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