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Image Enriched Learning in Tourism (IELIT)

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In an age of extraordinary and increasing visual stimulation, higher education has remained remarkably text-bound and can appear dull to students compared to their normal world.

Contact: Professor J.D.A. Tribe

Email: john.tribe@bcuc.ac.uk

Tourism students are often attracted to the subject by its promise to investigate place and space and can be disappointed by the lack of visual engagement and concentration on mainly text-centred teaching strategies.

This project aimed to create a co-operative approach to sharing photo resources and to encourage the planned use of such resources to improve teaching and learning. IELIT offered an e-image library using a creative fusion of need, existing resources, technology, potential and impact. Lecturers could benefit by sharing resources and ideas of how best to use them in their teaching. Students could benefit from imaginative and stimulating learning environments where ideas and images intermingle to provoke their senses and engage their learning.

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Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College

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