The mission of the AECT is to provide leadership in educational communications and technology by linking professionals holding a common interest in the use of educational technology and its application to the learning process. The International Visual Literacy Association is an affiliate of AECT.

An organization founded to promote "excellence in scholarship and teaching in the history and criticism of the visual arts and in creativity and technical skill in the teaching and practices of art."

An organization for those interested in visual literacy as a discipline, as well as across disciplines.