Interactive Curriculum Visualization

In curriculum visualization, information visualization techniques are used to communicate the structure and content of a curriculum to the stakeholders, such as students, lecturers, and administrators. Curriculum visualization has recently drawn a lot of interest as there are growing demands to form larger educational units and to find savings by eliminating overlap. We have developed a novel approach to analyse and visualize the contents of a curriculum. Our software tool for curriculum visualization uses a fast heuristic to automatically lay out a curriculum diagram, provides tools to process the content information, and offers several coordinated views to visualize the curriculum contents and overlap. The approach and software tool have already been used successfully in one survey and two others are underway.