The present study describes the effect of concept maps on learners’ achievement and interest for classroom teaching of the second law of thermodynamics to engineering students. Learners are encouraged to develop their individual concept maps of the second law of thermodynamics. The scores of the learners’ concept maps are compared with the score of the expert map developed by the teacher. After...

The effectiveness of concept maps in mathematics education was examined through review of relevant empirical research studies. Concept maps are identified by Novak as useful tools in learning and assessment, comprising concepts connected by linking phrases that form propositions relevant to a particular knowledge domain, organized in a hierarchical structure. To examine claims of the effectiven...

In this paper, we describe ways of enhancing concept mapping tools to facilitate representation and use of superimposed information. Superimposed information refers to new interpretation of existing information and involves working with information at various document granularities (sub-document, complete document, and multi-document). We illustrate our approach by showing how enhanced concept ...

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This paper presents a project that aims to develop a collaborative Concept Map Editor that will provide the necessary functionality to be used by multicultural teams.

Inside the computer based education community there is a need to open Student Model to the users (e.g. teachers and students) in order to promote reflection, in students, and allow inspection to the teachers. In this paper we present DynMap+, a visual medium that allows the inspection of Individual and Group Student Models coming from different sources. Several visual mechanisms are used to ope...

Research in self-regulated learning environments has focused on student motivation, development of metacognitive skills, learning strategies, and individual differences. Equally important is the modeling of domain-specific concepts and the ability for students to learn them under their preferred environment. In this paper, we present a general framework for modeling domain-specific concepts tha...

Recently, many authors have considered the problem of simultaneous lo-calisation and mapping (SLAM). The paper addresses a somewhat diierent problem, that of cooperative localisation and mapping (CLAM). Basically, CLAM involves two or more robots cooperating to build a map of the environment. This cooperation is not aimed at simply increasing the speed with which the map is constructed; rather,...

In this paper we critically review and analyze previous research on collaborative concept mapping in both face-to-face and networked environments. Although research has shown the positive effects of collaborative concept mapping on learning in face-to-face learning environments, there is a dearth of research which specifically focuses on the potential value of adopting collaborative concept map...