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Learning models in contemporary context

Higher education in Croatia is still dominated by linear models of learning (information gathering, vertical thinking and validation of old conceptual patterns). At the same time, students who take classes in such conceived programs live in a contemporary context shaped with new media and communication technology, exposed to the popular visual culture of a postmodern society, which is complex and in a state of constant change and fluidity. This is where the transfer of information occurs in the dominant image form and greatly influences the creation of the personal, social and cultural identity of today's students. Therefore, such a transfer of information and visualization of knowledge, as a cultural and social process in which comes to light the present-day world of constant change. Information visualization should be used as a possible way of value restructuring using the communicative effect of images as an exchange of definitions and concepts. Two examples will be presented here and both show a contemporary approach to teaching in higher education that use information visualization as a learning process. At the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, as part of the courses in the Methodology of Fine Arts Teaching, students visualize given literature in order to design a learning tool that serves students of similar and related studies. Examples of landscape architecture studies will also be presented as part of students' professional projects utilizing a freer choice of topics and tools such as video, as a tool for communication and information transfer, making social board games, and presenting their projects through alternative expression. The application of knowledge obtained through literature-based information, translated into a spatial form implications and translated into an alternative way of thinking and expression.

learning models, art education, landscape architecture education, visualization, gamification, collaborative learning

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