Handbook of Research on Collaborative Learning Using Concept Mapping

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Educators are now seeking new methodologies to respond to the demand for personal education and knowledge acquisition and production. Concept mapping, a powerful learning and teaching technique, provides these educators with new methods that are beginning to be implemented at all educational levels in many institutions worldwide. "The Handbook of Research on Collaborative Learning Using Concept Mapping" presents innovative educational and learning models that meet current complex educational demands, providing educators and teachers, as well as researchers, tutors, and students with a comprehensive understanding of the current research and trends of both theory and pedagogy in e-learning, involving collaborative learning and concept mapping. Compiling authoritative studies from an interdisciplinary network of education and instructional technology experts, this reference collection is essential to academic and research libraries and to a full range of stakeholders in the research and practice domains of education. Editorial Advisory Board List of Reviewers List of Contributors Table of Contents Foreword Preface Acknowledgment Section 1: The Use of Concept Mapping and Collaborative Learning in E-Learning 1 LOLA: A Collaborative Learning Approach Using Concept Maps • Patricia Lupion Torres 2 Collaborative Learning and Concept Mapping for Language Teaching • Rita de Cássia Veiga Marriott, 3 The Assessment of Interactive Learning: The Contributions Made by Online Portfolios and Cognitive Mapping • Edméa Santos, Marco Silva 4 Eliciting Thinking Skills with Inquiry Maps in • Alexandra Okada 5 Concept Maps as a Tool for Promoting Online Collaborative Learning in Virtual Teams with Pre-Service Teachers • Wan Ng, Ria Hanewald 6 Factors Influencing Individual Construction of Knowledge in an Online Community of Learning and Inquiry Using Concept Maps • Simone C. O. Conceição, Maria Julia Baldor, Carrie Ann Desnoyers 7 Distance Collaboration with Shared Concept Maps • Alfredo Tifi, Antonietta Lombardi Section 2: The Use of Concept Mapping and Collaborative Learning in Face-to-Face Situations 8 Collaborative Learning: Leveraging Concept Mapping and Cognitive Flexibility Theory • Chaka Chaka 9 Teaching Critical Thinking and Team Based Concept Mapping • Dawndra Meers-Scott, LesLee Taylor, John Pelley 10 Intersubjective Meaning-Making in Dyads Using Object-Typed Concept Mapping • Josianne Basque, Béatrice Pudelko 11 Collaborative Learning by Developing (LbD) Using Concept Maps and Vee Diagrams • Päivi Immonen-Orpana, Mauri Åhlberg 12 A Systematic Review of Reserch on Collaborative Learning with Concept Maps • Olusola O. Adesope, John C. Nesbit, 13 Exploring Semiotic Approaches to Analysing Multidimensional Concept Maps Using Methods that Value Collaboration • Christina J. Preston 14 Expanded Collaborative Learning and Concept Mapping: A Road to Empowering Students in Classrooms • Paulo Rogério Miranda Correia, Maria Elena Infante-Malachias 15 Mapping Concepts with Fisherfolk • Denis Hellebrandt 16 Using Concept Mapping to Improve the Quality of Learning • Maria Luisa Pérez Cabaní, Josep Juandó Bosch 17 Concept Maps and Conceptual Change in Physics • Angel Luis Pérez Rodríguez, Maria Isabel Suero López, Manuel Montanero-Fernández, Pedro J. Pardo Fernández, Manuel Montanero-Morán 18 Using Concept Maps to Assess Individuals and Teams in Collaborative Learning Environments • Tristan E. Johnson, Dirk Ifenthanler, Pablo N. Pirnay-Dummer, J. Michael Spector Section 3: The Use of Concept Mapping and Collaborative Learning at Pre-School, Primary and Secondary Schools 19 Enhancing Autonomy, Active Inquiry and Meaning Negotiation in Preschool Concept Mapping • Gloria Gomez 20 Consensual Concept Maps in Early Childhood Education • Rosario Mérida Serrano 21 Concept Maps and Meaningful Learning • Patricia Lupion Torres, Luiza Tatiana Forte, Josiane Maria Bortolozzi 22 Concept Mapping and Formative Assessment: Elements Supporting Literacy and Learning • Jeffrey Beaudry, Polly Wilson Compilation of References About the Contributors Index