Abstract:
This paper introduces VisEN, a novel visual narrative framework that has been shown to facilitate, support, and enhance student engagement in an adaptive Online Learning ...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
This paper introduces VisEN, a novel visual narrative framework that has been shown to facilitate, support, and enhance student engagement in an adaptive Online Learning Environment (OLE). VisEN provides explorable visual narratives personalized to students in order to support them in engaging with course content. The evaluation of VisEN showed that the explorable visual narratives encouraged the majority of improving engagement students, that completed the Information Management and Data Engineering module as part of their undergraduate degree, to engage with assigned activities, and subsequently these learners enhanced their engagement levels. Visualizations have been used in OLEs to support students by presenting student data. Information Visualization research has demonstrated the value of visual narratives in communicating a message, by highlighting facts and making the message more memorable. In addition, visual data exploration can support users in understandings the message. However, in OLEs, explorable visual narratives have not been used to date to support student engagement or to guide learners through a message that they could explore and understand. This paper evaluates the impact that explorable visual narratives had on student course engagement during two successive academic years.
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies ( Volume: 11, Issue: 3, 01 July-Sept. 2018)
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University of Dublin Trinity College, Dublin, IE
Bilal Yousuf is a post-doctoral research fellow in the School of
Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin. His research is focused in the area of visual presentation
and exploration of data in online learning environments, visual narratives, and personalization. His PhD thesis
focused on the generation of personalized visual narratives and their presentation in the Information Visualiza...Show More
Bilal Yousuf is a post-doctoral research fellow in the School of
Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin. His research is focused in the area of visual presentation
and exploration of data in online learning environments, visual narratives, and personalization. His PhD thesis
focused on the generation of personalized visual narratives and their presentation in the Information Visualiza...View more
University of Dublin Trinity College, Dublin, IE
Owen Conlan is an associate professor in the School of Computer
Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin. He has internationally recognized expertise in the research areas of
personalization and visualization. He has co-authored more than 120 publications and has received several best paper
awards. He coordinated the European Commission-funded CULTURA project, a successful collaboration between ...Show More
Owen Conlan is an associate professor in the School of Computer
Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin. He has internationally recognized expertise in the research areas of
personalization and visualization. He has co-authored more than 120 publications and has received several best paper
awards. He coordinated the European Commission-funded CULTURA project, a successful collaboration between ...View more
Contents University of Dublin Trinity College, Dublin, IE
Bilal Yousuf is a post-doctoral research fellow in the School of
Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin. His research is focused in the area of visual presentation
and exploration of data in online learning environments, visual narratives, and personalization. His PhD thesis
focused on the generation of personalized visual narratives and their presentation in the Information Visualization
domain. He is a member of the Personalizing the User Experience theme, ADAPT Centre (http://www.adaptcentre.ie
), which explores new ways to support users in exploring complex information. In addition to his research, he is
an enthusiastic educator co-supervising PhD and MSc students.
Bilal Yousuf is a post-doctoral research fellow in the School of
Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin. His research is focused in the area of visual presentation
and exploration of data in online learning environments, visual narratives, and personalization. His PhD thesis
focused on the generation of personalized visual narratives and their presentation in the Information Visualization
domain. He is a member of the Personalizing the User Experience theme, ADAPT Centre (http://www.adaptcentre.ie
), which explores new ways to support users in exploring complex information. In addition to his research, he is
an enthusiastic educator co-supervising PhD and MSc students.View more
University of Dublin Trinity College, Dublin, IE
Owen Conlan is an associate professor in the School of Computer
Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin. He has internationally recognized expertise in the research areas of
personalization and visualization. He has co-authored more than 120 publications and has received several best paper
awards. He coordinated the European Commission-funded CULTURA project, a successful collaboration between Computer
Science and Modern History at Trinity College Dublin, as well as a consortium of international academic and commercial
partners. He leads the Personalizing the User Experience theme, with a team of more than 20 researchers, as part of
the ADAPT Centre. He is a passionate educator and teaches knowledge and data engineering subjects at undergraduate and
postgraduate levels, and he has supervised 8 PhD and over 20 MSc students to completion.
Owen Conlan is an associate professor in the School of Computer
Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin. He has internationally recognized expertise in the research areas of
personalization and visualization. He has co-authored more than 120 publications and has received several best paper
awards. He coordinated the European Commission-funded CULTURA project, a successful collaboration between Computer
Science and Modern History at Trinity College Dublin, as well as a consortium of international academic and commercial
partners. He leads the Personalizing the User Experience theme, with a team of more than 20 researchers, as part of
the ADAPT Centre. He is a passionate educator and teaches knowledge and data engineering subjects at undergraduate and
postgraduate levels, and he has supervised 8 PhD and over 20 MSc students to completion.View more