Her main factor for choosing the courses have to do with travel itinerary. She wants to take the maximum out of her studies on the first period of courses. 6 out of 9 courses are doable online. She has a nice activity chart which show the process of choosing courses. Edraw Soft seems a good tool to be used, just if it could have a mac version.
Comparing to some other NIE's who have made a cycle about the process of choosing course, she has made a tree of factors that have been considered while making seleciton of course. She has gone really in dept. of the time planning and has considered every aspect. Probably the huge workload during last year has made her much freedom of which courses to take or not.
What pop's out from his assignment that there is no visual used. Visuals are always good diving already some sort idea what the article is about and like we all know "they say more than 1000 words". He doesn't go in dept. to selection of the course as we all are mostly familiar with it in Tallinn University. The course selection is depending on the time available in Google Calendar.
He's study plan is like a piece of art:) You just want to have a closer look at it.
The ones that are afraid of blood might just get wrong impression about the red drops.
Anyway he has gone in detail to describe whole study plan development process and mentioned many aspects that have change the selection of courses on the timeline.
He has used very colorful terms which rise interest and make you want to read the blog post about it. I wish he had shared the name of the tool used.
You always want to here what he has to say because he has always a lot of things to say. I would have expect to have a lot of "whistles" and "colors" on this schema but contrary it has a clear define of activity and most probably that's the way to be when it concerns a study plan.
Conclusion
There where mostly used two kind of visuals to present the study plan. Either keep "it simple" or "dress to impress". It's just questionable where each way of presenting is necessary. I believe in the matter of making study plan once mostly consider if the course is interesting or if it's mandatory. In the process of this it doesn't need much visualization but to keep in plain and simple. Sometimes the value of information or visual is in its simplicity.
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