Affiliations: [a] Department of Library and Information Science, University Carlos III of Madrid, Madrid, 28670, Spain | [b] Unit of Information Resources for Research, Spanish National Research Council, 28002, Spain | [c] Department of Humanities: History, Geography and Art, University Carlos III of Madrid, Madrid, 28670, Spain
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Corresponding author: Miguel Angel Marzal García-Quismondo, Department of Library and Information Science, University Carlos III of Madrid, Madrid Street 126, 28903 Getafe, Spain. Tel.: +34 916 249 219; E-mail: mmarzal@bib.uc3m.es.
Abstract: This research paper describes the application of a didactic innovation project in Higher Education. We present the theoretical foundation of the project. Thanks to the evolution of the Web and the potential of image to disseminate and generate knowledge, visual materials have had an increasingly powerful projection in Education, especially for the development of new methods, media and didactic materials in Higher Education. As a result of researchers interested in it, Visual Literacy has emerged as an academic field developing research and didactic effectiveness of the image, and digital competences and academic literacy as instruments to be integrated into curriculum of higher education for its excellence. We analyse the didactic innovation project by presenting how we integrated a Visual and Academic Literacy competence-based program into a course at the Carlos III University of Madrid. We show its instructional design, didactic materials, pedagogical activities, planning and evaluation. Findings suggest the need for this type of programs for academic excellence in higher education.
Keywords: Visual Literacy, academic literacy, digital competences, visual competences, information competences
