The purpose of using visualization in an educational context is to facilitate and improve the learning process among students at every grade level. For visualization of information to work well in education it is necessary that an association be made between the base knowledge of the pupil and the information being taught in the curriculum. To design effective visualizations it is necessary to have a clear understanding of what the pupil is expected to know before the visualization is developed. This is of critical importance when one is working in the context of education.

The question of a visual approach to the educational process was the subject matter of a Visualization in Science and Education Conference that took place at in the United Kingdom on July 2009 at Oxford University. The core of the conference covered the role that scientific and educational visualizations play in making complex and multifaceted information accessible by simplifying it in a meaningful and demonstrable visual depiction. "Visualizations have a fundamental role to play in helping us understand the complexity of phenomena we are trying to study", reported the Conference participants.

Here is a partial list of the methods supported by ConceptDraw products, and that are widely used in the education processes:

• Brainstorming .
• Mind maps for knowledge organizing.
• Gantt charts for process tracking.
• Flowcharts for process structuring.
• Block diagrams for structuring information.

ConceptDraw software products for over 15 years have demonstrated themselves as complete tools for knowledge visualization that can improve both the learning and teaching side of the education equation. ConceptDraw MINDMAP in 2009 was nominated for the Macworld Award as the Education Product of the Year. This nomination proves the importance of good visualization tools that have the potential to change how we learn today and in the future.

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