The Community for Learning & Innovation (CLI) gives lecturers from Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) the opportunity to apply for a fellowship. With this fellowship, they research educational innovation, or carry out an educational project.
On this page you can read more about the CLI Fellowship of Ilona van Opdorp-van de Kooi (ESL) in which educational materials are being developed to improve the visual literacy of law and criminology students.
How can we make our students’ visual literacy future proof? Technological developments have made it easy to create, share and present visuals. This has led to an increase in visuals in the legal system. Different types of visuals are created by many actors: (digital photos of) drawings, maps, photos and videos from security cameras, medical visualizations such as X-rays and fMRI scans, 3D models of crime scenes, timelines and visual legal communication (legal design). Therefore, more attention for visual literacy of criminology and law students is necessary. This project studies which educational materials and didactical methods improve visual literacy. In a (future) world of deep fakes and video analysis using algorithms, our students need to become future proof visually literate persons.
The fellowship project was started by Gabry Vanderveen, Associate Professor of Criminology at Erasmus School of Law. Gabry Vanderveen passed away on 10 January 2023. The fellowship is now continued by Ilona van Opdorp-van de Kooi.
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