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The Educational Multimedia Clip as a Tool for Students’ Self-learning on Concept Mapping

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It has been already justified that concept mapping is an exceptionally suitable tool for formative assessment of structural knowledge. However, before the implementation of such type of assessment, the teacher should decide on a reasonable students’ training strategy, its implementation way, and content to be delivered. The paper focuses especially on the last mentioned issue - the selection of the content and its representational forms for an educational multimedia clip that has been developed as a main tool for students’ self-learning on concept mapping before the regular concept map based formative assessment of structural knowledge in one of the author’s taught study courses. Content requirements and their further implementation in the clip are specified in detail. An empirical study based on students’ evaluation of easiness of perception, internal value, and sufficiency of the content presented in the clip is discussed as well.

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The author thanks her colleague Mara Pudane and her friend Edgars Valinieks for helping in the development of the educational multimedia clip by playing roles of the students.

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  1. Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia

    Alla Anohina-Naumeca

  2. University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia

    Alla Anohina-Naumeca

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    Priit Reiska

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    Joseph Novak

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Anohina-Naumeca, A. (2016). The Educational Multimedia Clip as a Tool for Students’ Self-learning on Concept Mapping. In: Cañas, A., Reiska, P., Novak, J. (eds) Innovating with Concept Mapping. CMC 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 635. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45501-3_16

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