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Visual lectures for dyslexic students

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posted on 2018-10-04, 13:01 authored by David RobertsDavid Roberts
Lecturing in Higher Education is dominated by PowerPoint presentations characterised by text and bullet points. But research tells us this is harmful because it overloads our minds’ ability to process text whilst simultaneously under-exploiting our ability to comprehend through imagery. It’s bad enough for neurostandard students, but for dyslexic students it can often be far worse. This chapter presents an alternative way of using PowerPoint that inverts how we use it so it takes advantage of visual processing abilities and presents text in cognitively-digestible ways. The method privileges very large, high-quality images not as supplements but as the means to convey substance and meaning. The chapter presents a range of evidence that reveals especially how dyslexic students benefit from using images effectively, but the message applies to many student cohorts in various disciplines because it’s cognitive, not disciplinary. The chapter concludes with demonstrations and advice on finding copyright-appropriate images

History

School

  • Business and Economics

Department

  • Business

Published in

The Inclusivity gap

Pages

1 - 19 (19)

Citation

ROBERTS, D., 2018. Visual lectures for dyslexic students. IN: Krcmar, K. (ed.) The Inclusivity gap. Aberdeen: Inspired by Learning, pp.1-19.

Publisher

Inspired By Learning

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2018

Notes

This is a book chapter.

ISBN

9781909876101

Language

  • en