Description
Educational practices have seen a wide array of technological advancements in recent years. As learning methods making the transition to online and virtual settings, instructors are required to develop teaching plans that conform to the new era of e-learning. Designing, developing, and deploying these new instructional plans remain a challenge for educators due to a lack of research and knowledge in graphic design techniques.
Visual Approaches to Instructional Design, Development, and Deployment is a collection of innovative research on visual-forward approaches to instructional design and applications of visual planning methods in creating effective learning environments. This book focuses on the advancement of online learning techniques using visual design technologies. While highlighting topics including image curation, visual planning, and textual thinking, this book is ideal for instructional designers, researchers, practitioners, instructors, developers, administrators, graphic artists, academicians, and students seeking current research on advancements in instructional design through the use of visual thinking strategies.
Author's/Editor's Biography
Shalin Hai-Jew
Shalin Hai-Jew
works as a grant writer for Hutchinson Community College, in Hutchinson, Kansas. She recently moved from an instructional designer position at Kansas State University where she had worked for 17 and a half years. She has taught at the university and college levels for many years (including four years in the People’s Republic of China) and was tenured at Shoreline Community College but left tenure to pursue instructional design work. She has Bachelor’s degrees in English and psychology, a Master’s degree in Creative Writing from the University of Washington (Hugh Paradise Scholar), and an Ed.D in Educational Leadership with a focus on public administration from Seattle University (where she was a Morford Scholar). She tested into the University of Washington at 14. She reviews for several publishers and publications. She has worked on a number of instructional design projects, including public health, biosecurity, one health, mental health, PTSD, grain science, turfgrass management, social justice, and others. She has authored and edited a number of books. Hai-Jew was born in Huntsville, Alabama, in the U.S.