A New Way of Visualizing Curricula Using Competencies: Cosine Similarity, Multidimensional Scaling Methods, and Scatter Plotting

Takamatsu, Kunihiko; Murakami, Katsuhiko; Kirimura, Takafumi; Bannaka, Kenya; Noda, Ikuhiro; Yamasaki, Mayumi; Lim, Raphael-Joel Wei; Mitsunari, Kenichiro; Nakamura, Tadashi; Nakata, Yasuo

doi:10.1109/iiai-aai.2017.29

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“…We visualized curricula by employing syllabi from 39 courses, instead of competencies (Figure 2, cited from [44]). As there is only one big group, it is possible to understand that this map is not useful in comparison with both curriculum maps, which were developed by humans; it is also possible to visualize curricula using competencies.…”

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A Novel Curriculum Visualization Method Using a Combination of Competencies, Cosine Similarity, Multidimensional Scaling Methods, and Scatter Plotting

Takamatsu

Murakami

Kozaki

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Information Engineering Express

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This article outlines a new way of visualizing curricula (sets of courses for students) using competencies via a combination of cosine similarity, multidimensional scaling methods, and scatter plotting. We have already published a report analyzing syllabi (summary texts that explain the main points of courses or the contents of curricula) with the same methods. In this report, we show that using competencies is more useful than using syllabi. Usually, students are only interested in the course content when they select courses; this new visualization of curricula using competencies gives students a new perspective on their courses.

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“…Next, we transformed the adjacency matrix into an adjacency list using the igraph library [45]. We visualized these data using the open-source software Cytoscape [43] (Figure 3, cited from [44]). Since this figure shows too many connections, it is difficult to clearly understand the relationships among courses.…”

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A Novel Curriculum Visualization Method Using a Combination of Competencies, Cosine Similarity, Multidimensional Scaling Methods, and Scatter Plotting

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Murakami

Kozaki

et al. 2019

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“…We have developed a new method to visualize the curriculum of Kobe Tokiwa university ) (Takamatsu, Murakami, Kirimura, et al, 2017).…”

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“…Then, the dimension was reduced using the MDS method, and a scatter plot was created (Takamatsu, Murakami, Kirimura, et al, 2017).…”

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“…We attempted to visualize the network presented in Figure 3 in the paper by (Takamatsu, Murakami, Kirimura, et al, 2017). However, as all elements (members) appear in the figure, the network becomes extremely complicated, and the visualization is not good compared to the visualization performed using the MDS method.…”

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New Analysis of Visualization in Eduinformatics Using a Network With Parametric and Nonparametric Correlation Coefficients With Threshold

Takamatsu

Kozaki

Muarakami

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Eduinformatics, a new term coined by us, is a field that combines education and informatics, and novel techniques will need to be developed for this field. Earlier, we developed a new visualization method to visualize the curriculum of Kobe Tokiwa University using multidimensional scaling (MDS) and a scatter plot. In this study, our focus is on methods to analyze the relationships between answers to questions in eduinformatics questionnaires. MDS methods are very useful, but have limitations in that their results are difficult to interpret. To facilitate the interpretation of these results, we develop a new visualization method using a network with both parametric and non-parametric correlation coefficients with a threshold (VNCC). VNCC has nine steps. We apply the VNCC method to research on nursing education, and provide an example of the visualization of the result. VNCC methods will be useful in dealing with qualitative research in eduinformatics.

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A New Concept of ICT on Eduinformatics in Higher Education

Takamatsu

Noda

Bannaka

et al. 2021

Proceedings of Sixth International Congress on Information and Communication Technology

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A New Way of Visualizing Curricula Using Competencies: Cosine Similarity, Multidimensional Scaling Methods, and Scatter Plotting

Cited by 18 publications

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A Novel Curriculum Visualization Method Using a Combination of Competencies, Cosine Similarity, Multidimensional Scaling Methods, and Scatter Plotting

A Novel Curriculum Visualization Method Using a Combination of Competencies, Cosine Similarity, Multidimensional Scaling Methods, and Scatter Plotting

New Analysis of Visualization in Eduinformatics Using a Network With Parametric and Nonparametric Correlation Coefficients With Threshold

A New Concept of ICT on Eduinformatics in Higher Education

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