Okanagan Data visualizations of the learning experience in undergraduate creative thinking assignments
department or school: Arts and Social Sciences, Irving K. Barber Faculty of (Okanagan)
department or school: Psychology, Department of (Okanagan)
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCO
creator: Gomez Velez, Monica Isabel
issued: 2023-04-14T20:57:59Z
issued: 2023
related degree: Master of Arts - MA
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: This research investigates the role of the educator, the digital humanities researcher, and the design of the creative learning experience as catalysts of the students’ meaning-making process. Employing an arts-based methodology and a multimodal mixed method research design, digital humanities research tools were used to analyze creative writing outputs from an undergraduate course, in order to generate visualizations and narratives of the students’ learning experience, and gain insight into how the learning affected their mental models, or worldviews. The texts used in this project are narrative inquiries included in creative portfolios and final creative essays from an undergraduate visual design program in Medellin, Colombia. The students’ creative texts were analyzed using the text analysis tools Voyant Tools and the Meaning Extraction Helper to secure validity through triangulation. The research design facilitated the emergence of meaning from the data, and revealed the complexity of the conceptual relationality inherent to meaning making during the learning experience by depicting changes in correlations and distributions of word occurrences related to the course concepts. The thesis concludes with a critical reflection on circumstances and tensions of pedagogical-research practice in the digital context, and proposes creative learning and digital research value-driven strategies for meaningful learning and ethical research.
aggregated CHO: https://circle.library.ubc.ca/rest/handle/2429/84200
note: DATA VISUALIZATIONS OF THE LEARNING EXPERIENCE IN UNDERGRADUATE CREATIVE THINKING ASSIGNMENTS by Monica Isabel Gomez Velez Masters of Education, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia, 2018 A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS in THE COLLEGE OF GRADUATE STUDIES (Interdisciplinary Studies) (Digital Arts and Humanities) THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Okanagan April 2023 © Monica Isabel Gomez Velez, 2023 ii The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommend to the College of Graduate Studies for acceptance, a thesis/dissertation entitled: Data visualizations of the learning experience in undergraduate creative thinking assignments submitted by Monica Isabel Gomez Velez in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Masters of Arts. Dr. Liane Gabora, Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Supervisor Dr. Aleksandra Dulic, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies Supervisory Committee Member Dr. Catherine Broom, Faculty of Education Supervisory Committee Member Dr. Robert Campbell, Faculty of Education University Examiner iii Abstract This research investigates the role of the educator, the digital humanities researcher, and the design of the creative learning experience as catalysts of the students’ meaning-making process. Employing an arts-based methodology and a multimodal mixed method research design, digital humanities research tools were used to analyze creative writing outputs from an undergraduate course, in order to generate visualizations and narratives of the students’ learning experience, and gain insight into how the learning affected their mental models, or worldviews. The texts used in this project are narrative inquiries included in creative portfolios and final creative essays from an undergraduate visual design program in Medellin, Colombia. The students’ creative texts were analyzed using the text analysis tools Voyant Tools and the Meaning Extraction …
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2023-05
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0431045
language: eng
degree discipline: Interdisciplinary Studies
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Graduate
contributor: Gabora, Liane
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/84200