
Lecture by Prof. Krystyna Matusiak from the University of Denver
The Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences invites you to a guest lecture by Prof. Krystyna Matusiak entitled "Visual Resources in Student Academic Work". The meeting will take place on 14 October at 9:30 a.m. in room C.0.39 at Collegium Humanisticum (ul. Bojarskiego 1).
Dr. Krystyna Matusiak is a Professor at the Department of Research Methods and Information Science of the University of Denver, USA. She is a Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Communication and Information Research of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń.
Abstract of the lecture: Digital technology has dramatically changed the way students utilize visual materials by enabling easy creation and reuse. The influx of visual resources has created new possibilities for teaching and learning in an academic environment that has traditionally favored the text as a source of knowledge. However, the proliferation of images and ease of copying and pasting do not mean that students know how to select appropriate images, evaluate them in regard to meaning, quality, and copyright, and integrate them into academic work effectively. This presentation will report the findings of a research project that examined the use of visual resources among university students in the context of academic work. The study focused on students’ visual literacy skills and the role of images in student academic work. The study adopted the Consensual Qualitative Research (CQR) method. The findings indicate that students utilize a range of visual resources in their presentations, but rarely incorporate images into their written work. Students primarily use images as illustrative objects or sources of information. This study demonstrates that despite living in a visually rich world, students are not experts in using images and require assistance in developing visual literacy skills.
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