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a website that catalogs infographics from across the web. Visual.ly has more than 5,000 infographics arranged in twenty-one categories. Some of the infographics are useful displays of information and others, like the one below are just for fun.

MOOCs Cheatsheet Infographic | e-Learning Infographics cMOOCS xMOOCS etc

Create infographics here.

Here are 10 tips for designing better infographics (click the image examples to go to their original sites):1) Be Concise: 

 Data Visualization, Infographics, and Statistics

Three months of development for one hour of online coursework. In terms of numbers, that's one point that came out of listening to the podcast, which was a helpful landmark. That estimate was for a middle of the road course on the three variables: Graphics/Multimedia Level of Interactivity Instructional Design

If we do something on social media in general these might be helpful

# of Infographics I've seen this wk=3,274 % of those which added nothing but simple graphs & color 100%

nice list of free tools including wordle, gapminder, etc

 It shows that 20 million active users have created 3 billion drawings since the app launched just seven weeks ago.

A couple of infographic résumé sites, vizualize.me and re.vu, sprouted up that use your LinkedIn data to show your career stats. Just create an account, connect it to LinkedIn, and you get some graphs that show when and where you worked. It's a visual form of your LinkedIn profile with a goal to replace the "old" and "boring" résumé that uses just text.

Our education is shifting from century-old, industrial-age factory model to personalized learning through technologies. Blended learning has been widely recognized as a promising approach to facilitate a learning-on-demand model. This infographic displays the ideas around it along with 6 programs representing each of the blended learning models

Models for meeting vs online are very useful

we'll be pairing two written texts that we think "speak" to each other in interesting ways, and supplying a few questions and ideas for working with the two together. One of the excerpts will, of course, always be from The New York Times - sometimes ripped from that week's headlines, and other times from the archives. The other excerpt will usually come from an often-taught literary, historical, scientific or mathematical text. We will also include visuals - photographs, videos, infographics or illustrations - that might be used as additional texts on the topic.

StatPlanet is a browser-based interactive data visualization and mapping tool. It is used by international organizations such as UNESCO and SACMEQ, NGOs, Fortune 500 companies, government departments, schools and universities for a wide variety of purposes. It can be used to easily and rapidly create interactive thematic maps, interactive graphs, and feature-rich interactive infographics.

There is more to life than the cold numbers of GDP and economic statistics - This Index allows you to compare well-being across countries, based on 11 topics the OECD has identified as essential, in the areas of material living conditions and quality of life.

"This graphic chronicles the history of feature films from the origins in the 1910s until the present day. More than 2000 of the most important feature-length films are mapped into 20 genres spanning 100 years. Films selected to be included have: won important awards such as the best picture Academy Award; achieved critical acclaim according to recognized film critics; are considered to be key genre films by experts; and/or attained box office success."

The interactive graphic, made using Tableau Public, features a clickable map of the summits, satellite images of each peak and figures for each mountain's prominence and overall elevation.