Title: Overview of information visualisation in science education

Authors: Chun Hua Wang; Dong Han; Wen-Kuang Chou

Addresses: College of Information Engineering, Huanghuai University, Zhumadian, Henan, 463000, China ' College of Information Engineering, Huanghuai University, Zhumadian, Henan, 463000, China ' Department of Computer Science and Information Management, Providence University, Taichung, 43301, Taiwan

Abstract: Developed on computer assisted instruction, visual education has become a new teaching method, which is a computer technique-based visual design for education. Based on the overview of the previous studies, this paper expounds the main features of education visualisation, outlines the theoretical basis of education visualisation, summarises the empirical study of science education visualisation, and refines the application scenarios and attention matters in the visualisation of science education by using static and dynamic visualisation as the clues for classification. Finally, it is concluded that the effect of education visualisation is remarkable depending on the students' knowledge background, visual perception and comprehension ability. Therefore, the design of educational visualisation must ensure that the objects and contents of visualisation can adapt to the specific conditions and instructional objectives.

Keywords: science education visualisation; static visualisation; dynamic visualisation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCSE.2018.094423

International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering, 2018 Vol.17 No.1, pp.118 - 125

Received: 23 May 2016
Accepted: 07 Jul 2016
Published online: 03 Sep 2018 *

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