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ABSTRACT
Covid-19 has shown us what it means to be isolated, disconnected and alone. As the post-pandemic academic world rebuilds itself, we will need to get serious about communicating diversity, inclusion and belonging to an ever-wider group of people in education. Visual communication is the key to conveying universally understood content that is highly effective and fits our new, digital-only lockdown environment. This article pulls on a strand of a recent University of Amsterdam study testing the effectiveness of animation in professional education, told in the Covid-friendly form of an animated story: https://youtu.be/SH7QzlPfyb8
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Fiona Passantino
Fiona Passantino is a professional Creative Storyteller, Visual Communication Specialist and Explainer-in-Chief, using animation and visuals to make complex ideas understandable for the average person. The 2020 study, ‘Not Just for Kids: Animation as a Serious Training Tool for the Workplace’ is the result of her recent Business Leadership and Management Master’s from the University of Amsterdam. The story of this experiment can also be seen in a 3-minute animation. Fiona lives in the Hague, the Netherlands with her family.