The "Gallery" section is new to our website. We hope to build a strong VUE community of users and thinkers. We need your help in creating a stimulating gallery area, showcasing your uses of VUE. Send us your maps and stories at vue@elist.tufts.edu , and we will post them here.
Videos
- Presenting with VUE (4:05 min) Introduction to VUE's flexible presentation environment. VUE can meet individual presentation styles.
- Creative Problem Solving: Toward a Digitally Driven Process. (19:05 min) This video was produced by Diego Uribe, International Center for Studies in Creativity at Buffalo State College.
VUE Map Examples
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Download this VUE Map here:Manet-Overview map This map was created to demonstrate VUE's image support and the use of pathways for presentation purposes |
Download this VUE Map here: Mars Phoenix map |
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Download this VUE Map here:http://mendingjuju.wikispaces.com/4.1+SB+Design |
This map was created to demonstrate VUE's packaging capability, it is a VUE map encapsulated in a VUE VPK File. Download this VUE Map here:BostonTMapVPK.vpk |
Who would use VUE?
VUE can be used by anyone interested in visually structuring digital content, whether in support of teaching difficult to understand concepts or more generally, a tool for organizing personal digital resources. Below are a few examples of how certain audiences have used VUE in education.
VUE can be used by anyone interested in visually structuring digital content, whether in support of teaching difficult to understand concepts or more generally, a tool for organizing personal digital resources. Below are a few examples of how certain audiences have used VUE in education.
Instructors & Course Preparation
Instructors use VUE to plan or map out course content and instructional activities relative to their educational goals. Concept maps help faculty visualize the course in its entirety, as well as connections between subtopics. With VUE's rich support for digital content, these maps can be linked to related educational materials and made accessible to students online. VUE provides faculty with a highly flexible visual interface for constructing instructional maps by aggregating and organizing digital content contained within FEDORA-based digital library systems, Web sites and local file systems.
Learner & Knowledge Construction
Curricula that encourage and scaffold student exploration and the construction of connections among ideas lead to improved information retention and learning transfer. VUE provides a valuable supporting technology to such instructional activities. Through visualization and the processes of construction and annotation, VUE maps help learners establish and explore connections between topics within a complex domain. This facilitates deep learning and assists learners in connecting new information to existing knowledge.
Learning & Knowledge Assessment
Concept maps make personal understanding visible and explicit - for both teachers and students. VUE can be used to design activities where students demonstrate their understanding of the relationships among ideas and resources. VUE maps assist instructors in visualizing changes in student understandings over time.
How is VUE different from existing concept mapping software?
Concept maps have had a long and fruitful history in education for both teaching and learning. They provide visual representations of complex ideas or processes and the ways in which these elements are connected or interrelated. When concept maps and the ideas they represent are connected to digital resources, as in VUE, concept maps also become content maps. VUE was designed based upon the need for easy access to and organization of digital content, whether local or stored in persistent digital library systems. The data sources and resource panels are designed to place digital files at your fingertips in support of content mapping. In addition to an emphasis on mapping digital content, VUE also allows map authors to create visual pathways through a content map and supports the assignment of author-defined metadata to map elements. These features make complex maps accessible to learners by providing a guided tour of the content and by allowing users to search for, display and/or conceal map elements in support of customized presentations.
Instructors use VUE to plan or map out course content and instructional activities relative to their educational goals. Concept maps help faculty visualize the course in its entirety, as well as connections between subtopics. With VUE's rich support for digital content, these maps can be linked to related educational materials and made accessible to students online. VUE provides faculty with a highly flexible visual interface for constructing instructional maps by aggregating and organizing digital content contained within FEDORA-based digital library systems, Web sites and local file systems.
Learner & Knowledge Construction
Curricula that encourage and scaffold student exploration and the construction of connections among ideas lead to improved information retention and learning transfer. VUE provides a valuable supporting technology to such instructional activities. Through visualization and the processes of construction and annotation, VUE maps help learners establish and explore connections between topics within a complex domain. This facilitates deep learning and assists learners in connecting new information to existing knowledge.
Learning & Knowledge Assessment
Concept maps make personal understanding visible and explicit - for both teachers and students. VUE can be used to design activities where students demonstrate their understanding of the relationships among ideas and resources. VUE maps assist instructors in visualizing changes in student understandings over time.
How is VUE different from existing concept mapping software?
Concept maps have had a long and fruitful history in education for both teaching and learning. They provide visual representations of complex ideas or processes and the ways in which these elements are connected or interrelated. When concept maps and the ideas they represent are connected to digital resources, as in VUE, concept maps also become content maps. VUE was designed based upon the need for easy access to and organization of digital content, whether local or stored in persistent digital library systems. The data sources and resource panels are designed to place digital files at your fingertips in support of content mapping. In addition to an emphasis on mapping digital content, VUE also allows map authors to create visual pathways through a content map and supports the assignment of author-defined metadata to map elements. These features make complex maps accessible to learners by providing a guided tour of the content and by allowing users to search for, display and/or conceal map elements in support of customized presentations.