Interactive Concept Mapping Tool | return |
Concept mapping is a well known cognitive technique for visualizing and constructing structures between different concepts.
The interactive concept mapping tool iCMap helps students to discover relations between (mathematical) concepts and trains them how to construct a structure of a mathematical domain. Students can use iCMap either for solving predefined concept mapping exercises or for free exploration of a mathematical domain. A verification method evaluates a learner?s input and provides appropriate feedback. Feedback can be flag-feedback pointing to false edges, an explanation of an error, or a hint how to correct an error. Upon request, iCMap also calculates suggestions.
The verification substantially relies upon LeActiveMath's content ontology and on additional information provided in authored exercises. The content ontology is induced by learning items and their relations stored in the knowledge base.
iCMap's sophisticated interaction and ability to verify concept maps, to provide different forms of feedback, to integrate other components such as LeActiveMath?s dictionary for looking up concepts, to report user actions to LeActiveMath which in turn can notify registered listeners (e.g., a learner model) is unique.