Narrative and Text Visualization: A Technique to Enhance Teaching Learning Process in Higher Education

Abstract

Data visualization is the state-of-the-art technology that enables people from various domains to exhibit their work in a professional way. Visualization helps in understanding things in the past, present and predict the near future. The various tools and techniques of data visualization can be applied to different domains including health care, sales and marketing, forecasting, research, education, etc. This chapter intends the application of two different visualization techniques: narrative and text in the domain of education. Narrative and text visualization are generally considered as two different elements wherein this chapter intends to integrate both the techniques together and make it as a single component to help the education community. Narrative visualization is implemented using a storyboard that converts the text into a narrative format to help the student to understand the course in a simple way. Dashboards are also a narrative visualization technique which helps the student to have a glance of the course material. The content of the text is processed, frequent words are generated and visualized in the form of word cloud and other visualization methods to enable the student to understand and remember the course in a better way as a part of text analytics and visualization. Various techniques and tools including Canva storyboards, R, Tabulae and Power BI are employed in this work to implement narrative and text visualization to enable the tutor to teach better and make the teaching learning process easier.