Higher Education as a Visual Practice: Seeing through the Virtual Learning Environment

Autor/in	Bayne, Sian
Titel	Higher Education as a Visual Practice: Seeing through the Virtual Learning Environment
Quelle	In: Teaching in Higher Education, 13 (2008) 4, S.395-410 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1356-2517
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Educational Environment; Teaching Methods; Virtual Classrooms; Visual Environment; Visual Stimuli; Computer Interfaces; Imagery; Semiotics; Cybernetics; Appropriate Technology; Educational Technology; Information Technology; Technology Uses in Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Metaphorik; Semiotik; Kybernetik; Unterrichtsmedien; Informationstechnologie; Technology enhanced learning; Technology aided learning; Technologieunterstütztes Lernen
Abstract	As certain areas of practice in higher education shift online, the work of learners and teachers increasingly takes place within the domain of the image. The "digital turn" we are experiencing, both in higher education and in the wider culture, accompanies an "iconic turn" in which the logic of the image as it emerges on our screens has a growing influence over our working, thinking and learning practices. Visuality gains a new urgency as we move further into the digital age. This paper considers and critiques the form of visuality which increasingly mediates between pedagogy in higher education and digital space--the interface of the virtual learning environment or VLE. If the spatial organisation and visuality of the screen both represents and creates a value system and an ontology, what social and pedagogical practices does the VLE interface reflect, inform and inscribe? What meanings does it produce? What version of pedagogy does it "make visible", and what alternatives does it blind us to? (Contains 8 figures and 2 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10