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This is a Work-in-Progress paper that will explore how concept maps can be utilized to make engineering curricula, pedagogy, and assessment more inclusive. Making engineering more inclusive is one method in increasing the representation of women, underrepresented minority (URM) students, and underserved populations in an engineering program. The paper will show how inclusive curriculum, pedagogy and...
Concept map can explicitly represent complex ideas and the relationships among them. However, there are few empirical studies on deploying it as a supporting tool for inquiry learning. This pilot study explored the effects of concept mapping on students' group task performance, attitudes towards inquiry learning, and motivational and emotional experiences, in an online learning module. A class of...
Unlike individual learning, collaborative learning using a computer is based on the idea that knowledge can be created within small groups of students where members actively participate and interact by sharing experiences and skills. However, in authentic classrooms, instructors have limited time and inadequate resources to monitor and investigate all group activities of students with respect to the...
In an effort to enhance active learning in the subject of internal combustion engines, we introduced the combined use of concept mapping and online course module techniques as a part of the course. For the purpose of this study, we used an experimental design that involves a single instructor teaching the topic of introduction to the internal combustion engines (IICE) in a given semester. Students...
This article contains a description of a knowledge elicitation effort and representation pertaining to the modeling of conceptual knowledge in the health care field. The project has the goal of building a conceptual model of data in the Military Health System Data Repository, a large DoD/VA aggregation of databases that can be used in the implementation of software. The goal is to create a just-in-time...
Higher education has emphasized global education as a strategic goal over the past few decades, yet little empirical data has been collected to inform the decisions of global education. Engineering schools have integrated global experiences into programs with limited knowledge regarding the effectiveness of their program planning and capacity for supporting internationalization. Research is needed...
Extensive research efforts have been spent on concept based medical information retrieval, relying on rich domain resources and tools. In most cases, the identified medical concepts in a query are either matched strictly against a document (i.e. Concepts should be identical), or they are transformed into a bag of words. While the first approach has had limited success due to problems in concept identification,...
Over the past decades, intelligent conversational agents have been repeatedly used as pedagogical tools for fostering students' motivation and engagement in individual learning settings. However, in recent years, the uses of conversational agents have also been explored in collaborative contexts under the scope of Academically Productive Talk (APT). The theory of APT, which has derived from the work...
Concept mapping has been applied in several fields, including curriculum development, learning, and assessment. The validity of concept mapping process has been proven by many empirical studies. The present paper describes a concept map based system that has been conceived for learners' knowledge assessment in process-oriented short and open answers questions SOAQs' evaluation. The presentation of...
This paper presents a questionnaire based intercultural study carried out to identify the differences observed in people when individually interact with the CM-ED Concept Map Editor. Each participant interpreted and localised to his/her own culture a Concept Map (CM) about a sensitive topic. The aim of the study was to identify what visible elements of a CM are meaningful from a cultural perspective...
Carried out during a semester-long drama class, this research aimed to scrutinize the effects of e-concept mapping via LMS on English majors' (N=38) analytical skills presented in their PowerPoint (PPT) slide writing in Taiwan. Students were instructed to follow the concept mapping agenda via university learning management system (LMS), idea webbing, spider mapping, and network tree making to read...
Group interaction is a key component of group-based learning. However, its implementation in existing learning practices is inefficient. Previous studies discussed the use of concept mapping in group learning. Apart from its clear benefits for group learning and interaction, deficiencies of using concept mapping in distance groups were also recognized, mainly related to labor division, group coordination,...
<?Pub Dtl?>This paper proposes a scaffolded concept mapping strategy, which considers a student's (high or low) prior knowledge, and provides flexible learning aids (scaffolding and fading) for reading and drawing a concept map. The goal is that the whole class should progress in synchronized fashion through this strategy, with each student achieving meaningful learning. The scaffolding is tailored...
The Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) promises to reshape the way ocean science is conducted by providing ocean researchers with access to near real-time data, the ability to control/configure sensors and mobile assets, high-bandwidth infrastructure for images, powerful cyberinfrastructure, and data visualization and modeling tools to conduct their research. Recent advances in the delivery of web-based...
This paper presents a new concept mapping approach, called “Tree of Dynamics,” to enhance students' perception (intuitive cognition) of the relationships among fundamental concepts in an introductory engineering dynamics course. In this approach, the relationships among concepts are represented by tree structures including roots, trunks, branches, leaves, and fruits, rather than by using linking words...
This paper introduces a novel methodology to extract core concepts from text corpus. This methodology is based on text mining and social network analysis. At the text mining phase the keywords are extracted by tokenizing, removing stop-lists and generating N-grams. Network analysis phase includes co-word occurrence extraction, network representation of linked terms and calculating centrality measure...
For software engineers to find all the relevant program elements implementing a business concept, existing techniques based on information retrieval (IR) fall short in providing adequate solutions. Such techniques usually only consider the conceptual relations based on lexical similarities during concept mapping. However, it is also fundamental to consider the contextual relationships existing within...
Designing an e-learning course needs to be social support based in order to cater to the requirements of the society. Recommendations from social representatives need to be incorporated into the process of course formation and updation. This paper aims to present a distinctive multi-agent framework that integrates a two-tiered social support structure for designing an e-learning course. In tier I,...
The availability of Web services with similar functionality but different QoS values creates new challenges for Web services composition: not only functional properties of the composed service must be satisfied, but also non-functional properties such as response time and throughput must be optimal. We present RuGQoS'10 system for QoS-Aware Web services composition. The concept mapping technique allows...
Due to the heterogeneity of the semantic web, the integration of client applications and services using slightly different ontologies is a major challenge, shown by the significant research effort directed towards aligning ontologies and identifying matching concepts. A novel method for service selection by matching a query with services, represented by input and output parameters and a description,...
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