Reflections and Considerations on Running Creative Visualization Learning Activities

TL;DR

This paper reviews nine strategies for teaching creative visualization activities, sharing educator experiences to inspire and guide others in developing effective visualization learning methods.

Contribution

It offers a set of practical strategies and reflections to help educators design and improve visualization learning activities.

Findings

Nine strategies for creative visualization activities identified

Reflections on educator experiences shared as guidance

Foundation laid for developing visualization education best practices

Abstract

This paper draws together nine strategies for creative visualization activities. Teaching visualization often involves running learning activities where students perform tasks that directly support one or more topics that the teacher wishes to address in the lesson. As a group of educators and researchers in visualization, we reflect on our learning experiences. Our activities and experiences range from dividing the tasks into smaller parts, considering different learning materials, to encouraging debate. With this paper, our hope is that we can encourage, inspire, and guide other educators with visualization activities. Our reflections provide an initial starting point of methods and strategies to craft creative visualisation learning activities, and provide a foundation for developing best practices in visualization education.