• DocumentCode
    668307
  • Title

    Visual Representation: Enhancing Students´ Learning Engagement through Knowledge Visualization

  • Author

    Yusoff, Z. ; Katmon, Siti Aminah ; Ahmad, Mohammad Nazir ; Miswan, Siti Hidayah Mohd

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Inf. Syst., Univ. Teknol. Malaysia, Skudai, Malaysia
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    4-6 Sept. 2013
  • Firstpage
    242
  • Lastpage
    247
  • Abstract
    The progress in learning technologies has generated new knowledge about visualizing learning content to enhance the teaching process in a learning environment. In current situations, students are less of understanding and focus their topic during learning session in a classroom. This articles sums up the concept of knowledge visualization as a visual representation approach to improve the knowledge transfer between teachers and students in order to ensure the learning engagement and improve student´s level of understanding in primary schools. In this article, the knowledge visualization frameworks are identified and adapted as tool of knowledge visualization to construct learning engagement among students. One of knowledge visualization tool, namely, interactive visualization, is chosen for the application of the hierarchical framework to show the adaptation of the tools in increasing student engagement during the learning process in primary schools.
  • Keywords
    computer aided instruction; data visualisation; interactive systems; interactive visualization; knowledge transfer; knowledge visualization; primary school; students learning engagement; teaching process; visual representation; Animation; Cognitive science; Data visualization; Educational institutions; Knowledge management; Multimedia communication; Visualization; knowledge visualization; learning engagement; mental model; visual representation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Informatics and Creative Multimedia (ICICM), 2013 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Kuala Lumpur
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICICM.2013.48
  • Filename
    6702817