Bringing Visual Ideas to Online Courseware
by Julian Euell

Julian Euell, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, felt his online students were missing out on his visual teaching style. For example, when Julian discussed the social impact of the meal, he came to class dressed in a waiter’s tuxedo. Why did he do this? Because Julian feels that by linking verbal content to visual metaphor (waiter’s tuxedo) he can create a right brain, left brain connection that makes it easier for his students to organize their in-classroom discussions, thus improving student retention. Julian wanted to touch his online students with the same visual effectiveness as his in-classroom students.

ISS conducted several brainstorming sessions with Julian to explore how this could be accomplished. We designed an online slideshow that integrated every desired visual image. Julian now finds it possible to expand his visual ideas just as effectively on the Web as in his classroom lectures.

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