Visual Representations for Abstract Concepts: Designer Selection and Learner Perceptions

• In Event: RTD - Aesthetic Learning Experiences and Visual Representations of Abstract Concepts

Short Description

Pictures can add interest and explain instructional concepts but including graphics may be problematic without a graphic designer. This session describes a design and development study that investigated the process by which a pair of faculty-researchers collaborated to identify visuals for an online human performance technology course. The study documents how they identified 25 visuals to represent eight abstract concepts for a human performance technology course and reports learners’ appropriateness perceptions of the visuals.

Authors

• Kathryn Ley, U Houston Clear Lake

• Ruth Gannon Cook, DePaul University