TY - JOUR
T1 - Work In Progress
T2 - 129th ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition: Excellence Through Diversity, ASEE 2022
AU - Nelson-Fromm, Tamara
AU - Fagen-Ulmschneider, Wade
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© American Society for Engineering Education, 2022.
PY - 2022/8/23
Y1 - 2022/8/23
N2 - Prior research has indicated that academic curriculum can be difficult for students to understand: especially for new students or students considering multiple degree programs. Based on the existing curriculum visualization literature, we hypothesize that the visualization of multiple curricula in one diagram might aid students in understanding curricular requirements and analyzing the different course paths they could take to complete a desired degree program. This work in progress describes the design and implementation of a visualization of the degree programs within an engineering college at a large University, where the interrelated web of courses and majors is displayed in the form of a metro map. In this metro map, the course requirements of individual majors are represented by metro 'lines', with each represented by a 'station' on each line. If multiple majors require the same course to complete the degree, then the 'line' representing each major will connect to the 'station' for that course. Through this visualization, we aim to create a tool that students could use to better understand the path of their degree program, and the ways in which their program requirements interact with those of related programs. We describe our methods for collecting course data as well as the design and implementation of the visualization. We close with a proposed set of evaluations for determining the effectiveness of this tool, and describe the limitations involved in creating similar visualizations for additional universities.
AB - Prior research has indicated that academic curriculum can be difficult for students to understand: especially for new students or students considering multiple degree programs. Based on the existing curriculum visualization literature, we hypothesize that the visualization of multiple curricula in one diagram might aid students in understanding curricular requirements and analyzing the different course paths they could take to complete a desired degree program. This work in progress describes the design and implementation of a visualization of the degree programs within an engineering college at a large University, where the interrelated web of courses and majors is displayed in the form of a metro map. In this metro map, the course requirements of individual majors are represented by metro 'lines', with each represented by a 'station' on each line. If multiple majors require the same course to complete the degree, then the 'line' representing each major will connect to the 'station' for that course. Through this visualization, we aim to create a tool that students could use to better understand the path of their degree program, and the ways in which their program requirements interact with those of related programs. We describe our methods for collecting course data as well as the design and implementation of the visualization. We close with a proposed set of evaluations for determining the effectiveness of this tool, and describe the limitations involved in creating similar visualizations for additional universities.
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M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85138258339
JO - ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
JF - ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
SN - 2153-5965
Y2 - 26 June 2022 through 29 June 2022
ER -