Abstract
Knowledge Cartography is the discipline of visually mapping the conceptual structure of ideas, such as the connections between issues, concepts, answers, arguments and evidence. The cognitive process of externalising one's understanding clarifies one's own grasp of the situation, as well as communicating it to others as a network that invites their contributions. This sensemaking activity lies at the heart of the Open Educational Resources movement's objectives. The aim of this paper is to describe the usage patterns of Compendium, a knowledge mapping tool from the OpenLearn OER project, using quantitative data from interaction logs and qualitative data from knowledge maps, forums and blog postings. This work explains nine roles played by maps in OpenLearn, and discusses some of the benefits and adoption obstacles, which motivate our ongoing work. <strong>Editors:</strong> Patrick McAndrew (Open University, UK) <strong>Reviewers:</strong> Hendrik Drachsler (Open University, NL) and Patrick McAndrew (Open University, UK). <strong>Interactive elements:</strong> Examples and downloads for the Compendium software can be found on the OpenLearn site <a href="/editor/viewMetadata/http:/www.open.ac.uk/openlearn">http:/www.open.ac.uk/openlearn</a>
Highlights
By analogy to the discipline of spatial cartography, “knowledge cartography” (Okada et al, 2008) aims to provide an ‘aerial view’ of a topic by highlighting key elements and connections
We introduce the idea of open sensemaking communities and two knowledge mapping tools: Compendium and a new Web 2.0 tool, Cohere
We have introduced the rationale for the use Knowledge Cartography tools to support sensemaking around OERs, providing learners and educators with a way to make tangible meaningful connections between ideas and arguments within and across resources
Summary
By analogy to the discipline of spatial cartography, “knowledge cartography” (Okada et al, 2008) aims to provide an ‘aerial view’ of a topic by highlighting key elements and connections. We start by motivating the need for seeking coherent patterns in an ambiguous information ocean of learning materials and information In this context, we introduce the idea of open sensemaking communities and two knowledge mapping tools: Compendium (the primary focus of this paper) and a new Web 2.0 tool, Cohere. This is central to sensemaking in unfamiliar or contested domains, in which the primary challenge is to construct plausible narratives about how the world was, is, or might be, often in the absence of complete, unambiguous data Cohere social web application single by uploading crafted maps, which can manually by the be downloaded user for editing offline multiple by making maps automatically public, which can laid out be viewed and edited in the web browser
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