Knowledge Awareness Map for Open-ended and Collaborative Learning on World Wide Web

This paper proposes an open-ended and collaborative learning environment, called SharlokII. In this environment, the learners provide and share individual knowledge and other knowledge on the World Wide Web and discuss about them. This paper describes knowledge awareness map and its design, implementation and evaluation. The map visualizes the relationship between the shared knowledge and the current and past interactions of learners. The map plays a very important role of finding peer helpers, and inducing collaboration. In this map, a mediator agent recommends suitable collaborators who can help the problem solving. SharlokII has been developed and used it experimentally.