Concept Mapping is a method for externalizing and reflecting knowledge about real world phenomena. In cooperative settings, concept maps can also be used to aid cooperative learning activities and the development of a common understanding about the mapping subject. This process imposes requirements on tool support that have hardly been addressed in existing concept mapping tools. We present a t...

The paper presents the concept map based intelligent knowledge assessment system intended for systematic knowledge assessment. It focuses on the use of concept maps as a tool for extended support of intelligent knowledge assessment through variety of tasks offered, possibilities to extract parameters of the student model, and rich student’s support. The paper describes main functional mechanism...

Five eighth grade science classes of students in at a middle school were assigned to three treatment groups: those who individually concept mapped, those who collaboratively concept mapped, and those who independently used their study time. The findings revealed that individually generating concept maps on computers during study time positively influenced science concept learning above and beyo...

Concept learning belongs to the fundamental challenges of educational technology. Contrary to the current trend of designing and implementing contents for various web–based virtual courses, concept learning requires cognitive tools rather than digital materials. We introduce a novel scheme to generate computer games from concept maps made by a teacher or a learner herself. Concept gaming exceed...

BACKGROUND Virtual Patients (VPs) have been in the focus of research in healthcare education for many years. The aim of our study was to analyze how virtual patients are described in the healthcare education literature, and how the identified concepts relate to each other. METHODS We performed a literature review and extracted 185 descriptions of virtual patients from the articles. In a quali...

Visual saliency is a cognitive psychology concept that makes some stimuli of a scene stand out relative to their neighbors and attract our attention. Computing visual saliency is a topic of recent interest. Here, we propose a graph-based method for saliency detection, which contains three stages: pre-processing, initial saliency detection and final saliency detection. The initial saliency map i...

the present study was designed to investigate the impact of applying fill-in-the-map and construct-a-map techniques on efl learners’ knowledge of tenses. to this end, sixty efl elementary female students, who were selected based on their performance on a standardized teacher-made proficiency test, were randomly assigned into two equal experimental and control groups. in order to be convinced of...

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...