Abstract: Visual images are increasingly being used in learning and teaching resources, especially with access to quality digital images in web-based materials. This paper explores the effectiveness of including images in teaching materials in improving students’ learning experiences in mass lectures. This study confirmed the importance of using images to assist students make visual associations and, more importantly, remain focused in lectures. The appropriateness of the images being utilised is crucial to enforce the effectiveness of this practice…
Introduction: In the past, lectures have often been criticised as a poor way of stimulating thought and changing attitudes (Bligh, 1998). Students, especially in advanced years of study, have also demonstrated theirfeelings against this mode of delivery by not attending them (Huxham, 2005). Despite the arguments against them, lectures remain a major part of traditional Higher Education (HE) as a result of the formidable forces of economic efficiency, institutional inertia or even just personal habits (Huxham, 2005)…
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