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Predispositions to Concept Mapping: Case Studies of Four Disciplines in Higher Education

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This chapter investigates the response of four teaching academics in higher education to the use of electronic concept mapping. As such, it would be considered primarily a phenomenological study rooted in qualitative analysis. In particular, the chapter will analyze four independent projects where the instructor used electronic concept mapping for the first time. The academics first undertook these projects beginning in 2010. Three academics teach in North American universities while the last works in a Jamaican university. These projects include (1) use of electronic concept mapping to design anesthesiology curriculum in a medical school, (2) research on the use of virtual worlds in teaching undergraduate English literature, (3) the use of two-dimensional concept mapping in teaching undergraduate Greek mythology, and (4) using concept maps in a Jamaican graduate course in architecture education The analysis and synthesis of these findings will provide an introspective that sensitizes potential users to the nuances of the technology and how important it is to consider first the inherent pedagogical framework.

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  1. School of Education, Acadia University, 15 Main Street, Wolfville, NS, Canada, B4P2R6

    Gregory MacKinnon

  2. Caribbean School of Architecture, University of Technology, Jamaica, 237 Old Hope Road, Kingston 6, Jamaica

    Rohan Bailey

  3. Department of Anesthesia, Dalhousie University, 1276 South Park Street, Halifax, NS, Canada, B3H 2Y9

    Patricia Livingston

  4. Department of History and Classics, Acadia University, 15 University Avenue, Wolfville, NS, Canada, B4P 2R6

    Vernon L. Provencal

  5. Department of English and Theatre, Acadia University, 15 Main Street, Wolfville, NS, Canada, B4P 2R6

    Jon Saklofske

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MacKinnon, G., Bailey, R., Livingston, P., Provencal, V.L., Saklofske, J. (2014). Predispositions to Concept Mapping: Case Studies of Four Disciplines in Higher Education. In: Ifenthaler, D., Hanewald, R. (eds) Digital Knowledge Maps in Education. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3178-7_19

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