Audiovisual and multiscreen education

Abstract

The educational potential of audiovisual media has been the object of study, especially since the birth of television in the middle of the last century. Researchers have noticed the convenience of its use as an educational tool, given its ability to facilitate students’ understanding of educational content through the images, sounds and graphics that they incorporate as language. For many years the focus of research on this topic was on conventional social media: cinema, radio and, above all, television. However, the definitive implementation of ICTs in educational processes, the emergence of the so-called multiscreen society and the new content distribution platforms have created a new media framework where traditional media are losing prominence in favor of new devices. mobile phones, the social web and social media. This new scenario has led to a substantial change in teaching methodologies and a profound transformation of the role of teachers and students. The prominence of educational audiovisual content, its formats adapted for mobile devices and the consolidation of the web as a formal or non-formal learning system are realities that have been reinforced by the COVID-19 pandemic. This monograph incorporates the perspectives of various researchers on the educational possibilities of sound, video and image in the current digital framework.