Following established naval procedure, expert electronics technicians remotely support non-expert sailors via telephone, email, and chat referring to paper-based manuals as a common reference. Initially, experts have little contextual information about the problem and so must construct sufficient understanding through exchanges with the ship before offering help. To streamline and improve this ...

Theme-based learning (TBL) refers to learning modes which adopt the following sequence: (a) finding the theme; (b) finding a focus of interest based on the theme; (c) finding materials based on the focus of interest; (d) integrating the materials to establish shared knowledge; (e) publishing and sharing the integrated knowledge. We have created an on-line system which supports the TBL mode to p...

student concept learning in pulmonary physiology. Pathfinder scaling is used to derive concept maps for medical and veterinary students and their physiology instructors at Northwestern University and the University of Wisconsin, respectively. The concept maps are evaluated for coherence (internal consistency), student-instructor similarity, and correlation of similarity with final examination s...

By building on a cyclic model of lifelong learning that includes self awareness, self management, meta-learning and self monitoring, this paper reports on attempts to introduce lifelong learning skills to a class of second year engineering students. The unit taught in this case study is Physical Electronics 203. Concept maps, student generated assessment criteria, group interaction and peer ass...

This paper presents an exploratory study that investigated prospective teachers’ knowledge of concept mapping. Current research emphasizes concept mapping as an important tool in the classroom for teaching, learning and assessment of student learning. Despite the large number of studies on K-12 students’ use of concept mapping, there are very few studies on prospective teachers’ knowledge of co...

The goal of this ongoing project was twofold: to involve students in the construction of concept maps, and to explore the utility of student and faculty constructed concept maps as a tool for course development in a new semester in which a book change had been implemented. Students were required to construct concept maps for each chapter in a culture and psychology text during the first semeste...

Concept map is a graphical technique for representing knowledge, successfully used in different areas, including education, knowledge management, business and intelligence. In this paper, an overview of different approaches to automatic creation of concept maps from textual and non-textual sources is given. Concept map mining process is defined, and one method for creation of concept maps from ...

Chemical product and process design teaching is facing challenges due to the major changes occurred in the last decades in the chemical industry. The emergence of products as a focus for chemical engineers implies changes in what chemical engineers do. It is important to prepare students for the more diverse, flexible roles they are expected to perform in industry and nowadays it is requisite t...

Expanding mental outlook for learners is one of the important open problems in e-Learning. Online should have the property of expanding and enhancing the mental outlook of learners in general and also, in particular, concerning the studied discipline. This paper presents an approach to this issue. The tool used for expanding the mental outlook is represented by concept maps. Concept maps are us...