1. Imperial Visualisations Developing Interactive Visualisations for Education
Department of Physics
Dr Caroline Clewley, Dr Jonathan Eastwood, Prof Peter Török, Prof Dimitri Vvedensky & the UROP Team

2. Imperial Visualisations: visualisations.ph.ic.ac.uk
Aim: to enhance conceptual understanding of abstract concepts.
Method: visualisations in two “layers”:
Javascript/HTML for low-threshold exploration
Jupyter Notebook for deeper insight & adaptation
Outcome: an ever-expanding set of visualisations together with implementation guidelines and tools to create further visualisations.

3. A student-centred project
Design
Development
Implementation
Evaluation

4. Lecturers on targeted courses
Students as partners
Design
Development
Implementation
Evaluation
15 UROP students
Lecturers on targeted courses

5. Investigating efficacy
Implementation
Lectures
Tutorials
Homework
Coursework
Design
Developmen
Implementation
Evaluation
Evaluation
Usage statistics
Interviews
Observations
Final survey

6. Full circle next summer. What next?
We will aim to create a platform to easily adapt visualisations from Jupyter notebooks.
We will integrate the visualisations with computing labs and MOOCs.
A new UROP team with mixed expertise will work on further visualisations.
They could be working for you!

7. Call for expressions of interest
Does your department have a lecture course with abstract concepts student struggle to grasp?
Is the lecturer keen to innovate on their course and willing to engage over summer?
Caroline:
UROP students from your department can work with us to create visualisations, and bring back expertise to create more in following years.