Zoom Experiences in Higher Education - helping college students build data visualization capacity remotely.

This Innovative Practice paper presents the redesign of an introductory data visualization college course to foster participation and engagement in an online setting. Four classroom exercises, referred to as "Zoom Experiences," are described. Zoom Experiences varied depending on the topic being covered and were different each day to keep students' interest. Students were asked to indicate if they would recommend the "experience" (or not) using a 5-point Likert Scale ranging from: (1) I would definitely NOT recommend, to (5) I would definitely recommend the exercise. A total of 84 responses were analyzed. Analysis of responses indicate over 57% would recommend or highly recommend the activities, 35% would likely recommend, and 8% would not recommend the activities. The goal of the experiences was to help students stay engaged in an on-line element of a course originally designed for in- class participation.