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Spatial Vis

Educators use Spatial Vis™ as a tool to teach freehand sketching and improve students’ spatial skills. These are critical, but often underdeveloped, skills in STEM.

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Spatial Vis is a training tool for engineering, pre-engineering, and other science and technology students. The app teaches freehand sketching of 2D and 3D views, which is an important skill for technical communication and improving one's ability to visualize shapes in 3D. These skills have been shown to increase GPAs and graduation rates in STEM. Spatial Vis has 10 unique lessons that include orthographic projections, rotations of 3D objects, and flat patterns. Students complete assignments by sketching their solution and submitting their sketch to be automatically graded. Students have access to hints if they get stuck, but Spatial Vis is gamified to encourage students to try on their own before using the help features. Music: www.bensound.com
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Spatial Vis™ Makes Teaching Freehand Sketching Easy & Engaging

Ideal for CTE, Intro to Engineering, Design, and CAD Courses.

eGrove Education's Spatial Vis showing "Hidden Line(s) Incorrect" grading feedback.

Automatic Grading & Personalized Feedback

Students get immediate feedback on each sketch and unlimited retries. If students get stuck on an assignment they can get a hint or peek at the solution.

eGrove Education's Spatial Vis showing "Great Job" grading feedback.

Gamification, Persistence, & Engagement

Our star system rewards students for their persistence, a key in developing spatial skills.

eGrove Education's Spatial Vis teacher interface

Teacher Interface to Track Student Progress

Teachers have access to a Teacher Interface where they can view student enrollments and download student grade reports.

 

Teaching Resources

 

Lecture Slides, Video Lectures, Worksheets, & Activities

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Teachers and Students love it!

Testimonials

“Projected views and Orthogonal projection tend to be points of weakness of new engineering students. We teach Engineering Drawings and Orthogonal projections early in the curriculum, but it really takes practice to grasp this topic. With classes of hundreds of students, it is difficult to provide quick and appropriate feedback to students’ shortfalls. Spatial Vis provides a tool that allows students to complete multiple exercises and receive quick feedback and guidance as they work through the assignments”

Dr. Jeff Raquet
University of North Carolina at Charlotte

"My students almost all resoundingly love Spatial Vis. Many go beyond what I have assigned and even work ahead they enjoy it so much. It has also been really neat for students who never realized they had pretty advanced and sophisticated abilities to make those realizations as they work through the exercise and as they engage with 3D design and fabrication with Tinkercad and our 3D printers and laser cutter”

Ethan Greenberg
Lovett Instructor

"Excellent tool for remote learning or in-person learning. Helps students develop important skills for CAD and Technical Sketching"

Jake Fullington
Shelton High School Instructor

The primary reason for incorporating Spatial vis in the MER-101 course is to make hand-drawing more appealing to students. Students practiced plenty of 2D orthographic projections and 3D isometric drawings using the Spatial Vis app, as the app allowed unlimited attempts to get the answers right, and when the students could not answer correctly, the app provided hints for reduced points. As they were graded instantly by the app, it was a lot of fun for students to complete the hand-drawing exercises.

Spatial vis app helped in most certainly improving:

  • student participation in completing all the homework.

  • student performance in the hand-drawing midterms.

It even resulted in some students exploring and going beyond what is typically covered in the MER-101 course.

Prof. Pradeep Gudlur

Union College

"My students were all able to use the app independently as homework, and I saw remarkable progress in spatial visualization skills, especially among those starting with low skill levels"

Prof. Gordon Hoople
University of San Diego

"The best thing about the app is it’s available anytime, whether I’m waiting for someone to pick me up, waiting for my food or simply in the restroom. It’s ideal for its reach-ability"

Spatial Vis Student

"During this in and out virtual year, I am glad we chose to use this app. This app really teaches students how to hand sketch single view, orthographically, isometrically, and 3d visualizations without advanced verbal instruction”

Daniel Arnett
Hampton High School Instructor

"The activities are fun! They don't seem like homework!"

Spatial Kids Student

"Ever since implementing Spatial Vis into my program it has been very effective in getting the students focused on a task relative to sketching and that has been huge"

Stephen Marsh
Cabrillo High School Instructor

"Spatial Visualization is a good skill to develop! I think the app was fun to use and I did improve!" 

Spatial Vis Student

Research & Classroom Studies

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Improve Retention, Diversity, and Equity in STEM with Spatial Vis™

  • Spatial Visualization (SV) is the ability to visualize and manipulate 2D and 3D shapes in one’s mind.

  • The “Why So Few” article talks about the reasons there are so few women in STEM. One of the largest differences between genders is in the area of spatial skills.

  • Spatial skills are learnable and others have shown that SV training leads to increased graduation rates and improved GPAs in several introductory STEM courses. 

  • The Spatial Vis app makes it easier to teach and more engaging for students to learn these skills through immediate and personalized feedback.

  • Sketching 2D & 3D shapes has been shown to increase spatial visualization, but is an under-taught skill and is important for learning and communicating in a wide range of areas.

  • The Spatial Vis™ app allows students to work independently and even remotely.

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