Images and visuality in ICT Educational design

The functions and learning potential of images and ICT-based designs for learning are the results of the educational designer's ideas and aesthetic production skills. The concept of educational designs emphasises the educational dimension in the development of ICT-based learning tools and environments, and in the form of models for the use of exisitng applications in leaning cultures. the intrinsic breadth of various types of images creates new possibilities and challenges for the educational designer of teaching and learning processes. the digital media have moved the boundaries between images and other kinds of modalities (e.g. writing, peech and sound) and have augmented the possibilities for integrating the functions of the images and visuality in new forms of knowledge-building and new learning cultures