Lesson 7 - Choosing Media

3.5. More Evidence, Please

Although there has been extensive research on the pedagogical features of other media such as audio, video, and computing, the text has generally been treated as the default mode, the base against which other media are compared. As a result print, in particular, is largely taken for granted in academia. We are now though at the stage where we need to pay much more attention to the unique characteristics of text in its various formats, in relation to other media. Until though we have more empirical studies on the unique characteristics of text and print, the text will remain central to at least academic teaching and learning.