| Title | Visual Literacy in the Blended Classroom: A New Tool for Collaborative Learning |
|---|---|
| Faculty/College/Unit | Arts |
| Status | Completed |
| Duration | 2 Year |
| Initiation | 04/01/2016 |
| Completion | 12/31/2018 |
| Project Summary | This project seeks to (1) establish the technical foundations for the introduction of a new digital tool for visual learning at UBC, and (2) undertake its trial run in two undergraduate History courses to test the system and gather experiences of different ways of integrating it into the curriculum. The edX Image Annotation Tool allows instructors to create a database of course-specific, high-definition images (deeply zoomable to details), which instructors and enrolled learners can then engage with through commentaries, tags, and media-rich annotations of specific sections of the image. By actively creating new layers of information and interpretation about the image, students and teachers can debate visual materials in a deeper, more interactive, and recordable form that is currently unavailable within the existing online learning system (Connect) or in-class presentation software. Depending on specific learning objectives, these interactions can be instructor-led, in teams (either online or in-class), or autonomous. |
| Funding Details | |
| Year 1: Project Year | Year 1 |
| Year 1: Funding Year | 2016/2017 |
| Year 1: Project Type | Small TLEF |
| Year 1: Principal Investigator | Tara Mayer |
| Year 1: Funded Amount | 5,211 |
| Year 1: Team Members | Tara Mayer, Instructor I, History, Faculty of Arts |
| Year 2: Project Year | Year 2 |
| Year 2: Funding Year | 2017/2018 |
| Year 2: Project Type | Small TLEF |
| Year 2: Principal Investigator | Tara Mayer |
| Year 2: Funded Amount | 3,781 |
| Year 2: Team Members | Tara Mayer, Instructor I, History, Faculty of Arts |