Including multimodal assignments in your course design can:

• Expand communication skills by having students deliver course related theory and research to different audiences.
• Enhance digital literacy skills and help students become skilled producers for digital domains.
• Promote visualization of knowledge which activates students’ affective dimensions of learning and expression, leading to a different relationship with course material.
• Give students a chance to gain technical skills making media, and experience working with copyright and citation formats.
• Practice using their voice in the public domain, and have students find ways to share and reflect through expanded media forms.
• Showcase student learning in visual formats for online posting and distribution.
  
  
  

This resource was created with support from UBC’s TLEF fund for the project “Beyond the text: Promoting digital and visual literacy through multimodal projects” led by Christine D’Onofrio, Heidi May and Silvia Bartolic.