This special collection frames and exemplifies how digital technologies, in a sustainable and playful way, can foster human beings to realise their needs and ideas. The included articles exemplify this within different contexts, namely education, therapy, and a cultural institution.
How can researchers work in partnership with professional practitioners to develop new learning environments or resources? In this special issue, we investigate the research and practice nexus across design-oriented multimodal studies on meaning-making.
This special collection features articles from the 7th International Designs for Learning conference. The focus of the special collection is on current changes in designs of information and knowledge representations.
Visual communication is beginning to dominate communication in several domains. In this special collection, the focus is on exploring how multimodal transcriptions can be re-represented and transformed into audio-visual representations on a screen in an academic journal.
During the 8th International Conference on Multimodality (8ICOM) in Cape Town in 2016, a special stream on science and engineering teaching from a multimodal perspective was organised. These are just some of the papers from that conference stream.