The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is a free,

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concept map A concept map or conceptual diagram is a diagram that depicts suggested relationships between concepts. Concept maps may be used by instructional designers, engineers, technical writers, and others to organize and structure knowledge. A conce ...

ping application written in

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. The application is developed by the Academic Technology group at

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. VUE is licensed under the

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. VUE 3.0, the latest release, was funded under a grant from the

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The VUE Project

The VUE project at Tufts UIT Academic Technology is focused on creating flexible tools for managing and integrating digital resources in support of teaching, learning and research. VUE provides a flexible visual environment for structuring, presenting, and sharing digital information. Using VUE's concept mapping interface, faculty and students design

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s of digital resources drawn from digital libraries, local and remote file systems.

Releases

Tufts University's VUE development team has coordinated releases of the VUE project. The project's most recent release, VUE 3, has added many new features which distinguish it from traditional

concept mapping A concept map or conceptual diagram is a diagram that depicts suggested relationships between concepts. Concept maps may be used by instructional designers, engineers, technical writers, and others to organize and structure knowledge. A conce ...

tools.http://vue.tufts.edu/forums/topic.cfm?cf_id=8&t_id=197 According to an announcement made by the VUE team on their forums, new features include: tools for dynamic presentation of maps, map merge and analysis tools, enhanced

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and search capabilities, support for semantic mapping using

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, expanded search of online resources such as

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, or

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References

External links

VUE's website

VUE User Forums

VUE on Sourceforge

VUE community
on

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The VUE Project

Releases

See also

References

External links