Faculty Scholarly Dissemination Grants
Student-centered learning: transforming perspectives through visual communication
Department
University Libraries
College
University Libraries
Date Range
2014-2015
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities
Abstract
Working collaboratively, a professor and librarian increased student engagement by redesigning lessons, assessments, and rubrics in two courses. We applied the principles of informed learning pedagogy (emphasizing awareness of both information use and subject content) to an interdisciplinary photography program with underpinnings of rhetoric, cultural discourse, and visual communication. Through conversation, discussion, writing, and group work, students engaged images and written information, studied language and production of visual media, and applied techniques and knowledge in client projects, image exhibitions, and theses. Results: improved creative work, transformed personal and social perspectives, and a library guide which corresponds to the disciplinary model.
Conference Name
Lilly Conference On Evidenced-Based Teaching and Learning
Conference Location
Traverse City, MI
ScholarWorks Citation
Ranger, Kim, "Student-centered learning: transforming perspectives through visual communication" (2015). Faculty Scholarly Dissemination Grants. 473.
https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/fsdg/473
