'With me, the speaker speaks': Bible study with an inquiry-based orientation using visual learning strategies.

This study proposes a new learning strategy for teaching biblicaltexts using visual design strategies. Traditionally, biblical textshave been taught using a teacher-centered transmissionapproach, which does not engage digital students, who areaccustomed to visually accessing information. The proposedlearning strategy introduces an inquiry-based, student-centeredapproach wherein students design the visual layout and organizebiblical chapters via layout, discovery, packaging, and graphicediting. This allows students to directly and independently inter-act with and derive meaning from the text through multisensoryprocesses, as proposed by dual-coding theory. This learning strat-egy makes a novel contribution by having students producevisual typography as an active part of their learning processes.Compared with traditional transmission approaches, this studyexamines how this learning strategy is associated with students’strategies and cognitive challenges while studying biblical texts.