Paper Info
Title
Using Word Clouds To Support Students' Knowledge Integration From Online Inquiry: An Investigation Of The Process And Outcome
Abstract
This study reports the effects of using word clouds to support students' knowledge integration from online inquiry as demonstrated by blog posts, tags and concept maps. Fifty-four undergraduate students from a medium-sized university in the northwestern United States were randomly assigned into two groups and blogged for five weeks. To support students' online searching activity, the treatment group was provided a list of concepts in the format of a word cloud. The control group received the same list of concepts in an alphabetic order. Data analyses included comparing participant-attached tags and individual concept maps to the instructor's keyword list. Results revealed that the word clouds facilitated the construction of schema in a top-down deductive approach, which could be a meaningful and efficient way of learning.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1080/10494820.2018.1484774
INTERACTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Knowledge integration, tagging, word cloud, online inquiry
Concept map,Knowledge representation and reasoning,Cognitive map,Knowledge integration,Information retrieval,Word lists by frequency,Computer science,Tag cloud,Schema (psychology),Multimedia,Electronic publishing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
27
4
1049-4820
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
11
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ying Xie14714.48
Shu-Yuan Lin200.34