Digital imagery and informational graphics in E-learning : maximizing visual technologies /

E-learning has evolved with numerous IT-enabled affordances, including many that involve digital imagery and informational graphics. Not only are traditional images like drawings, blueprints, and photos widely used in e-learning, but also many new graphics have become useful learning aids. This book...

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Main Authors: Hai-Jew, Shalin (Author)
Corporate Authors: IGI Global
Published: IGI Global,
Publisher Address: Hershey, Pa. :
Publication Dates: 2010.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://services.igi-global.com/resolvedoi/resolve.aspx?doi=10.4018/978-1-60566-972-4
Summary: E-learning has evolved with numerous IT-enabled affordances, including many that involve digital imagery and informational graphics. Not only are traditional images like drawings, blueprints, and photos widely used in e-learning, but also many new graphics have become useful learning aids. This book offers useful methods for creating digital imagery as well as leading pedagogical theories and research on the implementation of inherited images. It features applied, hands-on strategies related to capturing and authoring tools used to acquire and create graphics.
Carrier Form: PDFs (xv, 331 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781605669731 (ebook)
Access: Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.
Index Number: LB1028
CLC: G434
Contents: Pedagogical theories and research -- Visual literacy in e-learning instructional design -- The applied roles of graphics in e-learning -- Types of graphics in e-learning -- Information and visualization imagery -- Capturing and authoring tools for graphics in e-learning -- Procedures for creating quality imagery for e-learning -- Building interactive and immersive imagery -- Collaborative image creation -- Effectively integrating graphics into e-learning -- The storage and access of e-learning visuals -- Designing informational graphics for a global multi-cultural context -- Applied ethics for digital imagery -- Future digital imagery.