4 March 2020: Online Knowledge Maps for Assessment and Feedback

Presenter: Prof. Gary Velan (University of New South Wales, Australia)

Concept and knowledge maps have the potential to improve student learning and understanding by promoting meaningful learning and critical thinking. However, providing manual feedback on students' maps is not feasible for large classes. Accordingly, a user-friendly, valid and reliable, automated online tool for assessment and feedback of students' maps might have significant benefits for learning. Knowledge Maps is a web-based platform developed at UNSW and integrated with Moodle. The platform can be used to create, edit and share maps, as well as providing automate feedback on students’ inputs. This webinar outlined the affordances of Knowledge Maps, evidence of its effectiveness. The potential benefits of Knowledge Maps for learning in a variety of disciplines might make this platform a useful addition to the digital assessment repertoire in higher education.

Further information

• Slide Set: TA_webinar_4_mar_2020_slides.pdf [1.7MB] [PPTx 5.8MB]
• Chat Log (edited for clarity): TA_webinar_4_mar_2020_chat_log.txt
• Resources
  • Journal paper (reference to english version of the knowlege map assessment system): Ho VW; Meng M; Hwang GJ; Pather N; Kumar RK; Vickery RM; Velan GM, (2019). Knowledge Maps: an Online Tool for Knowledge Mapping with Automated Feedback, Medical Science Educator, vol. 29, pp. 625 - 629, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40670-019-00736-y
  • Knowledge maps example resource from UNSW Digital Assessment toolkit https://teaching.unsw.edu.au/digital-assessment-toolkit/exemplar-16
  • CMaps tool explainer from UNSW Digital Assessment toolkit https://teaching.unsw.edu.au/digital-assessment-toolkit/cmap-tools
  • CMapTool (note this free tool can be used to create an inital concept maps to be inported into the knowledge maps assessment system) https://cmap.ihmc.us/
  • Journal paper (reference to orginal chinese version of the knowlege map assessment system): Wu, P.-H., Hwang, G.-J., Milrad, M., Ke, H.-R., & Huang, Y.-M. (2012). An innovative concept map approach for improving students' learning performance with an instant feedback mechanism: Concept map approach with an instant feedback mechanism. British Journal of Educational Technology, 43(2), 217–232. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8535.2010.01167.x
• Gary's UNSW Medicine profile. Gary's researcher page.

Session Recording

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