ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the overarching benefits and challenges of using and teaching visual methods in higher education. It focuses on the preceding case studies, giving examples of good practice and offering practical advice and potential solutions for commonly arising issues. The issue of subjectivity is a challenge that needs to be considered is practitioner use of visual stimuli. Joel Rookwood responding to student criticism took to making films for teaching in order to ensure that topic relevance was clear to the students and to eliminate the former damaging practice they had experienced of tutors randomly inserting clips, resulting in students' negative prior experience skewing their perceptions. The challenges of teaching visual methods as this text has illustrated are many but so too are the benefits. The methods in the case studies not only offer new opportunities to experience visual methods but also can expose students to distinct and sometimes marginalised groups, which broadens their wider understanding.
