Kelly Kingman, writer-designer-consultant, writes a nice bit of advice for how and why to investigate visual learning. Kingman notes that she is indebted to Sunni Brown, Austin Kleon and Dave Gray "whose panel at SXSW 2010 made all the lightbulbs come on".
More:
http://kellykingmanmedia.com/the-revolution-will-be-visualized/(via Jan Richards)