Advancing Personalized Engineering Learning Via an Adaptive Concept Map

本项目的目标是探索自适应概念图工具如何减轻学生的认知负担，并帮助他们在一门课程中建立概念联系。自适应地图工具可以帮助学生以一种模仿主题专家方法的方式将大量存储的信息可视化，从而促进学习。自适应地图工具正在静力学课程中实施和评估，这是几个工程学科的核心课程之一。研究小组正在利用现有内容储存库(如教科书)中的信息，以最大限度地减少开发自适应地图工具所需的努力。该项目的调查结果正通过会议和期刊以及一个专门的网站进行传播。

The goal of this project is to explore how an adaptive concept-mapping tool can ease students' cognitive overload and assist them with creating conceptual connections across a course. The adaptive map tool can assist students in visualizing large stores of information in a way that mimics the approaches of subject-matter experts and thus promotes learning. The adaptive map tool is being implemented and assessed in a Statics course, one of the core courses for several engineering disciplines. The research team is leveraging information in existing content repositories (such as textbooks) in order to minimize the effort needed for development of the adaptive map tool. The findings from this project are being disseminated through conferences and journals and through a dedicated website.