I have a strong interest in this subject in terms of understanding how to evaluate and assess student progress and student achievement. I’m also interested in alternate ways of representing content and knowledge acquisition, especially being able to use visual language – drawings, paintings, photography, video, performance as legititimate evidence of engagement in learning processes.

I realize that this means instructors and teachers will have to broaden their own literacy into these areas, to be able to critically assess content outside of text based submissions. At the same time, isn’t this going on, to some degree, when teachers evaluate and assess untestable aspects of participation in learning? It’s not that much of a stretch to take the same attitude to reading visual representations.

I think this is of critical importance when you have ESL, hidden disability, socio-economic and literacy factors that are acting as an impediment to success in school.