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Education relies heavily on visual stimulants to gain and hold students' attention. To accomplish this, teachers have traditionally relied on images in books, art work, film and television etc. in order to supplement the relatively mundane process of learning from reading and studying written material.
Studies have shown that humans retain more of what they see, than what they hear or read (see table 1). Instruction that combines all three (reading, hearing and seeing), are most effective, wherever the presentation of the material is interesting, entertaining and challenging.
The Internet provides an opportunity to explore learning through imaging in a way that is unique. This uniqueness is because increasingly the medium provides material in all forms which can be interrelated and made available from the same source, but in multiple dimensions. To put it another way, all the material, from text, film, video, audio (music, sound and voice), images and animation, can be made available to the individual, neatly rapped up in a web site browser.
Table 1 Information Retention As a Percentage READING HEARING SEEING 20% 30% 50%
