Design and Development of Online Collaborative Learning Platform of Kit-Build Concept Map

Abstract

A concept map is deemed a useful teaching and learning tool. It offers many potential advantages over just representing the students’ knowledge and understanding during learning, and have been widely used to support learning. Kit-Build concept map is one learning framework that incorporate digital concept map for its learning activities. Learning with Kit-Build concept map has been found to have better learning effects towards students' understanding and knowledge retention. Incorporating Kit-Build concept map into collaborative learning have been reported to have better outcome than the traditional collaborative learning. However, collaborative learning with Kit-Build concept map cannot be accomodated with the current Kit-Build system where learning activity is conducted online. This study presents the design and development of online collaborative learning platform of Kit-Build Concept Map. A prototype of the collaboration system to support collaborative learning with Kit-Build concept map is developed and be evaluated to portray its potential usability for further development and practical use. The result suggested that incorporating Socket.IO as a real-time communication middleware is effective to deliver online collaborative learning features into the Kit-Build system. Preliminary evaluation to the system also suggested that the system has the potential for actual use in supporting distant collaborative learning with Kit-Build concept map.

Discovering Knowledge-Point Importance From the Learning-Evaluation Data

“…Based on the work of Chen and Sue (2013), Kim et al (2020) proposed the optimization method of the associative knowledge graph using TF-IDF-based ranking scores. As stated in Pinandito et al (2021), Fatawi et al (2020), and Ma and Shi (2016), concept maps are applied in classroom teaching and learning systems. Li et al (2018) used helpful information in the learning-evaluation data to analyze a concept map.…”