The Avenue Platform: Redefining World Language E-Assessment

Lucas Lecheler; Charles Miller; Bradford Hosack; Susan Rose; Simon Hooper

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2013 (Oct 21, 2013) pp. 1213–1221

The Avenue platform, designed and developed by faculty and staff in Learning Technologies, Educational Psychology, and the LT Media Lab at the University of Minnesota, is an innovative online performance assessment framework comprised of two...

Topics: Instructional Design, Tools & Systems

Avenue: Innovation and Transformation in World Language, Reading, and Writing E-Assessment

Charles Miller; Lucas Lecheler; Elizabeth Maddy

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2012 (Oct 09, 2012) pp. 1547–1555

The Avenue platform is an innovative e-assessment system for learner performance evaluation, specifically in the contexts of world language, reading, and writing development. In this chapter we challenge designers, researchers, teachers, and...

Clear, Convincing, and Compelling: Exploring Information Visualization Design Opportunities in Online Learning

Charles Miller; Brad Hosack; Lucas Lecheler; Aaron Doering

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2012 (Oct 09, 2012) pp. 1159–1165

Information visualization, a fusion of art and science, is a visual and interactive methodology that affords users to experience complex data and explore the rich, inherent narrative of the context, without needing to reference and process an...

Orchestrating Data, Design, and Narrative: The Role of Information Visualization in Online Learning Design, Research, and Integration

Charles Miller; Brad Hosack; Lucas Lecheler

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2011 (Oct 18, 2011) pp. 1512–1518

Information visualization, a fusion of art and science, is a visual and interactive methodology that affords users to experience complex data and explore the rich, inherent narrative of the context, without needing to reference and process an...

Data as a Motivator: Using Information Visualization to Empower Teachers and Students in an E-Assessment Language Learning Environment

Charles Miller; Lucas Lecheler; Brad Hosack

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2011 (Oct 18, 2011) pp. 1506–1511

The role of information visualization (i.e. the orchestration of data, design, and narrative) in online learning is an increasingly important facet for educators, researchers, and designers; however, few authentic examples exist for collaborative...

InfoViz and Online Learning: How Design can influence Decision-Making

Charles Miller; Simon Hooper; Lucas Lecheler

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2010 (Oct 18, 2010) pp. 1132–1138

Information visualization involves the visual, and sometimes interactive, presentation and organization of complex data in a clear, compelling, and convincing representation. Although information visualization research and methods are prevalent in...