A proposal for using visualisation to support collaborative learning

The paper addresses the problem of how to share knowledge between a small group of people engaged in learning activities. In existing systems that support collaborative learning there is some evidence that difficulties occur when we try to: (1) support the sharing of knowledge between users; (2) support the learning process across distributed groups within a given educational setting; and (3) provide distributed access to knowledge from different types of machines. The proposed work is based on the examination of how a common structure for knowledge sharing can be used in distributed environments for collaborative learning in a higher education context by providing a 3D interactive visualisation. This work proposes the development of a visualisation design to convey information of the common structure for knowledge sharing to be created and enhanced in an educational context. We defend that the use of both the visualisation design and the structure for knowledge sharing can support collaborative learning.