FILTER Workshop: Encouraging and supporting image use in learning and teaching

Dates and Venues - No further workshops are planned at this time. You may view and use the workshop materials.

Background - why use images?

Today's students are growing up in a visual world, accustomed to receiving information visually, often developing a learning style to which images are integral. Further, there is pressure on educators to adopt technologies that utilise visual media.

The Focusing Images for Learning and Teaching: an Enriched Resource (FILTER) project aims to enable the use of images for learning and teaching in further and higher education through resources and examples contained in a Web-based project database.

The exemplars of image-based learning and teaching content cover a wide range of subjects and are presented in a variety of formats. Along with useful case studies and other resources these materials have been created by further and higher education research and teaching practitioners, supported by generic guidelines developed by the project. Together these provide templates and support for individuals in beginning to produce their own image-based materials.

Workshop Aims

• To disseminate the findings of the FILTER project and explain how they can benefit FE/HE education
• To introduce the issues and skills required to meet the needs of learning, teaching and research practitioners who wish to understand the benefits and limitations of using images
• To enable effective use of the project resources and provide hands-on experience browsing and using the database
• To encourage good practice in image use through exemplars and resources in the FILTER database

Content

The workshop content and activities are designed to share information and experiences of image use based on the resources in the FILTER database. Time will be divided into presentation, discussion and hands-on activities. We hope to include:

• Research findings on effective use of images for learning and teaching and image categorisation
• Case studies outlining the benefits, limitations and issues
• Exploration of exemplars of image use and guides for creation as well as links to numerous resources
• Discussion of generic issues relating to resource creation, description and management of images

Who should attend

Learning, teaching and research practitioners in UK FE/HE who wish to create image-based resources and better understand the benefits and limitations of using images.

How to book

No further workshops are planned at this time. However, if you would like more information email filter-info@bristol.ac.uk. Workshop materials will be made available online ASAP.

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