Factors of Self-Creating Digital Concept Maps for Fostering Knowledge and Information Awareness and Problem-Solving Performance in Virtual Groups

自我创建数字概念图在虚拟群体中培养知识和信息意识以及解决问题能力的因素

• 批准号: 84681797
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Friedrich Wilhelm Hesse, since 1/2014
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2007-12-31 至 2014-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/84681797?language=en
• 关键词: Factors; Self; Creating; Digital; Concept

In collaborative learning settings, it is important that the group members are informed regarding the knowledge of their collaboration partners. However, the acquisition of this knowledge is difficult, especially in virtual groups, that is, groups with spatially distributed members collaborating computer-supported. For solving this problem effectively, the proposer developed an approach for fostering "knowledge and information awareness". This approach provides members of virtual groups with both the knowledge structures of their collaboration partners and the underlying information represented by means of digital concept maps. Using this approach has been proven to improve the group performance and to help overcome important collaboration barriers. However, in studies in which the awareness contents had to be created by the group members themselves, major problems appeared that reduced the effectiveness of this approach. Nevertheless, self-generation of such contents is indispensable in application fields (e.g., in school). Therefore, the goal of this research proposition is to solve the problems of self-generation of awareness contents in order to be able to use the advantages of the "knowledge and Information awareness" approach in application fields. Study 1 investigates how group members can be motivated to create such awareness contents. Study 2 wants to solve the problem of limited comparability of self-generated awareness contents. Study 3 wants to show that, in consideration of the results from Study 1 and Study 2, self-generated awareness contents could even lead to a more effective and efficient awareness approach compared to given awareness contents.

在协作学习环境中，让小组成员了解他们合作伙伴的知识是很重要的。然而，这种知识的获取是困难的，特别是在虚拟群体中，即由空间分布的成员协作的计算机支持的群体。为了有效地解决这一问题，提案人提出了一种培养“知识和信息意识”的方法。这种方法为虚拟组的成员提供了协作伙伴的知识结构和通过数字概念图表示的基础信息。使用这种方法已被证明可以提高团队绩效并帮助克服重要的协作障碍。然而，在必须由小组成员自己创建意识内容的研究中，出现了降低这种方法有效性的主要问题。然而，这些内容的自生成在应用领域（如学校）是必不可少的。因此，本研究命题的目标是解决感知内容的自我生成问题，以便能够在应用领域中发挥“知识与信息感知”方法的优势。研究1调查了小组成员如何被激励去创造这样的意识内容。研究2想要解决自我产生的意识内容可比性有限的问题。研究3想要表明，考虑到研究1和研究2的结果，与给定的意识内容相比，自我产生的意识内容甚至可能导致更有效和高效的意识方法。