Multi-Perspective Concept Mapping in a Digital Integrated Learning Environment

Abstract

Improving higher education requires a pedagogical transformation of the trainers but also of the learners committed in their learning activities. In the framework of distance learning and WIL, learner-centered pedagogical approaches are useful. Thus, the Conceptual Map Project (CMP) is proposed with the support of Perspec-Map, a software aimed at strengthening the knowledge acquisition in automatic control of the audience in WIL. Perspec-Map is a web application promoting reflexive learning based on the sharing of users' point of view, thanks to multi-perspectives. It is an additional support for collaboration and blended-course momentum, changing the behavior of all the parties involved. On the basis of an evaluation with users, several improvements are envisioned: easier map design; management of the trainer-perspective for an improved reference map enriched by the peer reviews; availability of a digitally assisted trainer dashboard for map quality assessment, skills recognition, and facilitated guidance. These last issues demand an ethics and learning analytics.

I Learn. You Learn. We Learn? An Experiment in Collaborative Concept Mapping

“…It is worth noting that, in this experiment, we were not interested in evaluating the quality of the shared map per se (Nuninger, 2015;Nuninger et al, 2018), but rather the quality and usefulness of different aspects of the learning process.…”

“…In a subsequent work (Nuninger et al, 2018) we report the evaluation of a second version of the prototype in a real world setting, namely, the Automatic Control class at Polytech'Lille, in a Continuous Vocational Training for Chartered Engineers. Thanks to this experience, we realized that the role of multipleperspective Concept Maps could be much broader than the one devised initially.…”

“…Thanks to this experience, we realized that the role of multipleperspective Concept Maps could be much broader than the one devised initially. As we then stated (Nuninger et al, 2018), "the goal in collaboration is not to reach exactly the same perspective for all participants, but rather to help each other reaching a personal understanding of the topic under consideration".…”

Eritrean teachers’ challenges of their enthusiasm for digital competency and its impact on teaching performance

“…Learner-centered education (LCE) has been a focus for Eritrea, like many other developing nations in the Middle East and the Horn of Africa, and has received widespread national backing through training [5,6]. Many developing countries around the world, including some middle-income nations and underprivileged populations in more developed areas, have established national policies encouraging teachers to embrace learner-centered pedagogies and digital-integrated teaching methods [7,8]. For the newly independent nation, digital-integrated teaching known as Learner-Centered Pedagogy was judged to be the ideal alternative to traditional talk and chalk termed teachercentered education [5,[9][10][11].…”