Recent research studies in educational cognitive theory suggested that digital representations and the creation of digital artifacts provided by decision aids like Qlik Sense can greatly enhance learning performance in Project-Based Learning.
Qlik Sense provides a range of powerful visualization formats and collaborative tools in data sourcing and visualization, which are relatively easy to use for participants to build and share mental representations, through which learners can ‘cognitively’ manipulate their problem under the Project-based Learning , and interact with each other.
Educators at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (China) worked on a business scenario to prepare for a business case where it is necessary to develop and challenge assumptions at different stages. Participants are divided into project teams and discuss those assumptions in virtual rooms. Project teams collect, interpret, analyze various forms of internal and external data, and present their results in the form of Qlik performance dashboards to a Judge Panel. Meanwhile, participants are invited to confront their opinions, make decisions and visualize various forms of data when completing successive collaborative learning activities, either synchronous or asynchronous, as well as to collect, interpret, analyze various forms of internal and external data along different steps of the learning process. This process is facilitated by internal scripts providing a set of instructions to participants
However, this can be really effective only when mental representations are consistent with learning tasks and if the learning process is supported by written instructional scripts: such internal scripts or their combination with external scripts could be made available to educators on Qlik Learning and Community Portals.
Fore more information, watch the video COGNITIVE AND BEHAVORIAL SKILLS: QLIK to enhance cognitive learning in Virtual Constructivist Learning Environments: (Qlik Ambassadors Event, April 2022)
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