IEEE VIS 2024 Content: Space to Teach: Content-Rich Canvases for Visually-Intensive Education

Space to Teach: Content-Rich Canvases for Visually-Intensive Education

Jesse Harden - Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, United States

Nurit Kirshenbaum - University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, United States

Roderick S Tabalba Jr. - University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, United States

Ryan Theriot - University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, United States

Michael L. Rogers - The University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, United States

Mahdi Belcaid - University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, United States

Chris North - Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, United States

Luc Renambot - University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, United States

Lance Long - University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, United States

Andrew E Johnson - University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, United States

Jason Leigh - University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, United States

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Exemplar figure, described by caption below
A professor using an online whiteboard, SAGE3, for an in-person class with a very large display. On the online whiteboard are multiple slides of PowerPoint slide decks, saved as PDFs, and various sticky notes from student contributions.
Abstract

With the decreasing cost of consumer display technologies making it easier for universities to have larger displays in classrooms, and the ubiquitous use of online tools such as collaborative whiteboards for remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, combining the two can be useful in higher education. This is especially true in visually intensive classes, such as data visualization courses, that can benefit from additional "space to teach," coined after the "space to think" sense-making idiom. In this paper, we reflect on our approach to using SAGE3, a collaborative whiteboard with advanced features, in higher education to teach visually intensive classes, provide examples of activities from our own visually-intensive courses, and present student feedback. We gather our observations into usage patterns for using content-rich canvases in education.