I plan to do a full product review in this blog. I have downloaded the program from the VUE website and hope to have some time to play around with it in the next few weeks. I’m not sure how it could be used in business, but it may lend itself to situations where you may want to map more complex relationships than are possible to depict in a hierarchical mind map (where a topic may have only one parent). The website also contains a gallery of map examples, which give a nice overview of the types of applications for which VUE can be used.Īt first glance, VUE appears to be very well designed to deliver a rich learning experience to both instructors and students. If you have any interest in this intriguing application, then I definitely recommend that you view this video. If this all sounds a little foreign to you, the developers of VUE have provided an excellent QuickTime video that explains what VUE does, and how it enables the gathering, analysis and sharing of knowledge. This can be presented by an instructor, or can be viewed by others in a self-guided fashion. The program’s pathways feature allows presenters to create annotated “trails” through their maps, which become expert guided walk-throughs of the information. VUE is designed to enable faculty and students to easily map relationships between concepts, ideas and digital content. Developed as an open source project by Tufts University, VUE was designed to provide a flexible visual environment for structuring, presenting, and sharing digital information. VUE (Visual Understanding Environment) Windows, Mac, and Linux compatible. 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.I recently learned of a new visual mapping application called VUE – which stands for Visual Understanding Environment. Using VUEs concept mapping interface, faculty and students design customized. VUE also provide tools to apply semantic meaning to the maps, by way of ontologies and metadata schemas. VUE also provides supports for in-depth analysis of maps, with the ability to merge maps and export connectivity matrices to import in statistical packages. The power of VUE’s slide mode is the ability for presenters to focus on content (slide view) while preserving the information’s context (map view), by way of a single toggle between the two views. The pathways feature also provides a “slide view” of the information on the map. VUE’s pathways feature allows presenters to create annotated trails through their maps, which become expert guided walk-throughs of the information. Sharing and presenting information are important aspects of academic work. Digital content can be accessed via the Web, or using the VUE’s “Resources” panel to tap into digital repositories, FTP servers and local file systems. As the availability of digital information continues to increase, VUE sets itself apart as a flexible tool to help faculty and students integrate, organize and contextualize electronic content in their work. Numerous tools currently exist for locating digital information, but few applications are available for making sense of the information available to us. VUE provides a concept mapping interface, which can be used as such, or as an interface to organize digital content in non-linear ways. In fact, the benefits of concept mapping as a learning tool have been documented by over 40 years of cognitive science research. Using a simple set of tools and a basic visual grammar consisting of nodes and links, faculty and students can map relationships between concepts, ideas and digital content.Ĭoncept mapping is not new to the educational field. The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is a concept and content mapping application, developed to support teaching, learning and research and for anyone who needs to organize, contextualize, and access digital information.
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