This paper presents an idea of a poster with an interactive installation. The aim of the poster is to open discussion about the possibilities to combine the principles of concept map and knowledge building discourse techniques in a way that will benefit meaningful learning. The poster will include four design proposals and prototypes with the possibility to try out how a combination of concept ...

In physics education the use of graphical knowledge representation tools like concept maps has been one promising line of approach, which is known to support the formation of organised knowledge. There are several information technology (IT) solutions for concept mapping, which allow a flexible collaborative construction of concepts maps. However, the IT solutions need to be made as invisible a...

Regional knowledge map is a tool recently demanded by some actors in an institutional level to help regional policy and innovation in a territory. Besides, knowledge maps facilitate the interaction between the actors of a territory and the collective learning. This paper reports the work in progress of a research project which objective is to define a methodology to efficiently design territori...

In this paper, I describe concept maps as assessment tools for measuring one aspect of achievement, the organization of declarative knowledge in a domain. A concept map-based assessment consists of a task that elicits connected understanding, a response format, and a scoring system. Variation in tasks, response formats, and scoring systems produce different mapping techniques that may elicit di...

The concept map is becoming a ubiquitous tool in education. In recent years there has been a growing interest in “diagramming” or “mapping” ideas to be learned (e.g., Jonassen et al., 1998). The approach has been championed by study skills proponents such as Buzan (1993). Maps of concepts and relationships have been used by many researchers and practitioners to help diagnose misunderstanding, i...

In this paper we discuss the concept of ecological strategy in relation to cognitive artefacts that reflect the expressive power of learners engaged in the development of significant knowledge paths. Our experiments show that learners strive to make sense of the fragmentary information surrounding them and in this endeavour they may benefit from the creation of knowledge maps, i.e. branched str...

This paper seeks to establish the conceptual and empirical basis for an innovative instrument of corporate knowledge management: the knowledge map. It begins by briefly outlining the rationale for knowledge mapping, i.e., providing a common context to access expertise and experience in large companies. It then conceptualizes five types of knowledge maps that can be used in managing organization...

The fundamental step in measuring the robustness of a system is the synthesis of the so-called Process Map. This is generally based on the user’s raw data material. Process Maps are of fundamental importance towards the understanding of the nature of a system in that they indicate which variables are causally related and which are particularly important. This paper represent the system Map or b...

In order to better understand the structure of students’ knowledge in computer science, we are trying to identify patterns – in form of frequently occurring subgraphs – in concept maps. Concept maps are an externalization of a person’s declarative knowledge represented as a graph. We propose an algorithm that can be employed to identify frequently occurring subgraphs, based on existing algorith...