Enables users to create and visualize complex ideas and concepts with customizable nodes, branches and multimedia content.
VUE is a freeware terrain modeling app and PIM/organizer developed by Tufts University for Windows. It's advanced, professional, comprehensive, well-designed and powerful.
The download has been tested by an editor here on a PC and a list of features has been compiled; see below.
Organize and contextualize teaching and learning
At its core, the Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is a concept and content mapping application, developed to support teaching, learning and research and for anyone who needs to organize, contextualize, and access digital information. Using a simple set of tools and a basic visual grammar consisting of nodes and links, faculty and students can map relationships between concepts, ideas and digital content.
Concept mapping is not new to the educational field. In fact, the benefits of concept mapping as a learning tool have been documented by over 40 years of cognitive science research. VUE provides a concept mapping interface, which can be used as such, or as an interface to organize digital content in non-linear ways.
Numerous tools currently exist for locating digital information, but few applications are available for making sense of the information available to us. As the availability of digital information continues to increase, VUE sets itself apart as a flexible tool to help faculty and students integrate, organize and contextualize electronic content in their work. Digital content can be accessed via the Web, or using the VUE’s “Resources” panel to tap into digital repositories, FTP servers and local file systems.
Sharing and presenting information are important aspects of academic work. VUE’s pathways feature allows presenters to create annotated trails through their maps, which become expert guided walk-throughs of the information.
Features of VUE
- Brainstorming: Generate creative ideas through brainstorming.
- Diagrams: Create diagrams with nodes and connectors.
- Export: Export maps to various formats and applications.
- Hyperlinks: Link to other mind maps, websites and documents.
- Import: Import data from other mind mapping applications.
- Notes: Add notes and comments to branches.
- Outlining: Outline project plans and ideas with drag-and-drop.
- Photos: Insert images and photos into nodes.
- Presentation: Create presentations with integrated visuals.
- Search: Search the entire mind map for keywords.
- Share: Share maps with team members via cloud storage.
- Structure: Streamline project structure with collapsible branches.
- Templates: Customize projects with pre-made templates and styles.
- Visual mapping: Create visual maps to organize ideas and plans.
Compatibility and License
VUE is provided under a freeware license on Windows from organizer and PIM software with no restrictions on usage. Download and installation of this PC software is free and 3.3.0 is the latest version last time we checked.
What version of Windows can VUE run on?
VUE can be used on a computer running Windows 11 or Windows 10. Previous versions of the OS shouldn't be a problem with Windows 8 and Windows 7 having been tested. It's only available as a 64-bit download.
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