Learning to look: real and virtual artifacts

This article presents a case study that investigates the effectiveness of virtual artifacts in the teaching of classical art to first-year university students. It was expected that a virtual artifact would not be as successful a tool as a real artifact for this purpose. However, digital images provide the advantage of a mediated focus and prove to be useful, effective tools in supporting visual literacy. Keywords Art Virtual reality, Classical, Digital images, Image presentation, Visual literacy

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2002
• Where: ETS
• Authors: Janet Rountree, William Wong, Robert Hannah
• Keywords: ETS 2002, First-year University Students, Hardware, Virtual Artifact, Visual Literacy