Multimedia and image influences in education: some epistemological aspects

  • Authors:

  • Mihaela Costin

  • Affiliations:

  • Romanian Academy, Romania

  • Venue:
  • WORLD-EDU'12/CIT'12 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Communications and Information Technology, and Proceedings of the 3rd World conference on Education and Educational Technologies
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Image has a tremendous influence in educational process in different stages. Multimedia, the environment permanently surrounding us nowadays, augments image perception influence on text understanding, and suggests the emotional background. Short-term and long-term memory, are differently influenced by image, its understanding being sometimes completely marked by colour, style, impressionability. Tests, done on image retaining, show the impressing capacity to observe details influencing learning capacity. This paper makes an overview on recent papers in this field, underlining epistemological aspects in direct connection with the educational process.