http://www.visual-literacy.org/index.html
This e-learning site focuses on a critical, but
often neglected skill for business, communication, and engineering
students, namely visual
literacy, or the ability to evaluate, apply,
or create conceptual visual representations. After this tutorial,
students should be able to evaluate advantages
and disadvantages of visual representations, to improve
their shortcomings, to use them to create and communicate knowledge, or
to devise new ways of representing insights.
The didactic approach consists of rooting
visualization in its application contexts, i.e. giving students the
necessary critical attitude,
principles, tools and feedback to develop their own high-quality
visualization formats for specific problems (problem-based learning).
The students
thus learn about the commonalities of good visualization in
diverse areas, but also explore the specificities of visualization in
their field of specialization (through
real-life case studies). They will not only learn by doing, but
in doing so contribute new training material for their peers to evaluate
(peer learning).
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