A didactic innovation project in Higher Education through a Visual and Academic Literacy competence-based program Articles uri icon

publication date

  • December 2019

start page

  • 263

end page

  • 283

issue

  • 3

volume

  • 35

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0167-8329

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

  • 1875-8649

abstract

  • This research paper describes the application of a didactic innovation project in Higher Education. We present the theoretical foundation of the project. Thanks to the evolution of the Web and the potential of image to disseminate and generate knowledge, visual materials have had an increasingly powerful projection in Education, especially for the development of new methods, media and didactic materials in Higher Education. As a result of researchers interested in it, Visual Literacy has emerged as an academic field developing research and didactic effectiveness of the image, and digital competences and academic literacy as instruments to be integrated into curriculum of higher education for its excellence. We analyse the didactic innovation project by presenting how we integrated a Visual and Academic Literacy competence-based program into a course at the Carlos III University of Madrid. We show its instructional design, didactic materials, pedagogical activities, planning and evaluation. Findings suggest the need forthis type of programs for academic excellence in higher education.

keywords

  • visual literacy; academic literacy; digital competences; visual competences; information competences