Editors:
- Offers a broad range of knowledge mapping techniques and software tools applied to advanced information and knowledge processing
- Presents an extensive collection of examples and study cases in knowledge cartography
- Contributions from a widespread variety of leading mapping practitioners
- Accompanying website contains a forum to discuss the content, mediated by the authors, and knowledge maps with hyperlinks
Part of the book series: Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing (AI&KP)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Knowledge maps are ideal tools for capturing, organizing and extracting meaning from many different sources. They provide powerful graphic tools for classifying, representing and communicating all kinds of information.
This book discusses significant new research and explains its underlying principles in terms of Knowledge Cartography. It offers a rich variety of conceptual frameworks, mapping techniques and case studies. Readers are shown how to apply knowledge maps in different teaching, learning and knowledge management contexts.
Discussions include: What theories help us to understand knowledge maps in learning? What are the best methodologies and techniques for creating knowledge maps? What best practices exist in the use of mapping for learning? What are the difficulties and challenges of using knowledge cartography in learning?
Presenting conceptual foundations and orientation to the different approaches with illustrated practical methods and case studies, this book provides invaluable insight for researchers and graduates.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"This book attempts to describe the state of the art in the field … . Given the academic and research-oriented focus and style of this book, it will be of most interest to researchers in knowledge cartography and students who desire a research-focused survey of the field. Professional practitioners of knowledge mapping … who wish to use knowledge maps for pedagogical purposes, should also find this book helpful for increasing their repertoires of techniques and deepening their skills." (ACM Computing Reviews, May, 2009)
Editors and Affiliations
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Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
Alexandra Okada, Simon Buckingham Shum
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The Centre for Science Education, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK
Tony Sherborne
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Knowledge Cartography
Book Subtitle: Software Tools and Mapping Techniques
Editors: Alexandra Okada, Simon Buckingham Shum, Tony Sherborne
Series Title: Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-149-7
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2008
Series ISSN: 1610-3947
Series E-ISSN: 2197-8441
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 400
Number of Illustrations: 65 b/w illustrations, 68 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geographical Information Systems/Cartography, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Computers and Education, Educational Technology, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Multimedia Information Systems