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NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING A. DATA VISUALIZATION B. CMU’S OPEN LEARNING INITIATIVE Dr Aziza Ellozy, CLT Director & Assoc. Dean for Learning.

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1 NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING A. DATA VISUALIZATION B. CMU’S OPEN LEARNING INITIATIVE Dr Aziza Ellozy, CLT Director & Assoc. Dean for Learning Technologies Faculty Development Institute Spring 2008

2 DATA VISUALIZATION Faculty Development Institute Spring 2008

3  1545, Gesner: “the confusing and harmful abundance of books”  “The amount of unique, new information generated worldwide will be more than the previous 5,000 years” (ELI annual meeting, 2008) Information overload Faculty Development Institute Spring 2008

4  Our cognitive capacity is limited  Visualization of data augments our cognitive capacity  Not enough experts to make sense of data  Need to rely on software and the “Collective Intelligence” Information overload Faculty Development Institute Spring 2008

5 Some of the available tools  Gapminder  Worldmapper  ManyEyes Tools for Data Visualization Faculty Development Institute Spring 2008

6 Hans Rosling: Gapminder.org Faculty Development Institute Spring 2008 Click here “Debunking 3 rd world myths”

7 Worldmapper.com Faculty Development Institute Spring 2008

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16 ManyEyes.com Faculty Development Institute Spring 2008

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20 Carnegie Mellon’s Open Learning Initiative (OLI) Faculty Development Institute Spring 2008

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