Title
An Approach for Visually Supporting the Creation of Personal Development Plans
Abstract
Personal development plans (PDP) have positive effects in learnerspsila motivation and confidence since they enable individuals to reflect upon their own learning and to plan for their own educational development according to their personal interests, background and experience. Despite those benefits, there are not many efforts considering the role of learners in the creation of their own learning paths. In this paper we adopt the approach of concept mapping to propose and implement a visual approach for supporting learners in the exploration of existing learning paths and the creation of their PDP. The paper also describes a user study for preliminarily evaluating the implemented tool and discusses the most significant findings around three main issues of interest: understanding of the tool purpose, suitability of the graphic elements shown in the interface, and changes or additions that would improve the usability of the tool.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/ICALT.2009.93
ICALT
Keywords
Field
DocType
tool purpose,own learning path,concept mapping,visual approach,graphic element,own educational development,main issue,personal interest,own learning,personal development plans,data mining,computer graphics,computer applications,educational technology,visualization,concept map,usability,planning,organizations,graphical user interfaces,color
Concept map,Computer aided instruction,Visualization,Computer science,Usability,Personal development,Knowledge management,Human–computer interaction,Graphical user interface,Visual approach,Atmospheric measurements,Multimedia
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-0-7695-3711-5
1
0.53
References 
Authors
4
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Javier Melero1437.45
Davinia Hernández-Leo251065.32
Ernesto Arroyo3375.64
Albert Aguilar410.53
Josep Blat557071.54