People | Member | Alexandra Okada

P-time Research Associate

I am a researcher in Knowledge Mapping for Open Content Initiative at the Knowledge Media Institute. My background is in Computer Science and in Education. I have been exploring strategies for e-learning through mapping for more than 6 years. My PhD research was about Cognitive Cartography - epistemological and communicational interfaces to map knowledge in academic projects. For that, I investigated diverse cartography software (Nestor, CMap and Compendium) in Moodle. Nowadays, I am interested in mapping techniques through Compendium to improve collective building of knowledge in open learning

Keys: Information network, argumentative structures, cognitive cartography, collective building of knowledge

Projects
OpenScout
iCoper
OpenLearn
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Technologies
Compendium Software
Compendium

Okada, A., Mikroyannidis, A., Meister, I. and Little, S. (2012) "Colearning" - Collaborative networks for creating, sharing and reusing OER through social media, Cambridge 2012: Innovation and Impact - Openly Collaborating to Enhance Education, Cambridge, UK

Little, S., Mikroyannidis, A., Okada, A. and Scott, P. (2011) Formal Metadata and Shared Experiences for Discovering Tools to Adapt Open Educational Resources, Workshop: International Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition, Reuse and Evaluation (KARE 2011) at 7th International Conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet Based Systems (SITIS 2011), Dijon, France, pp. 147-153, IEEE Computer Society Publications

Mikroyannidis, A., Okada, A. and Connolly, T. (2011) Adapting and Sharing Open Educational Resources: A Social Networking Approach, Workshop: International Workshop on Social Network and Augmented/Virtual Reality Technologies Enhanced Learning at 11th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2011), Athens, Georgia, USA, IEEE Computer Society Publications

Mikroyannidis, A., Okada, A., Little, S. and Connolly, T. (2011) Supporting the Collaborative Adaptation of Open Educational Resources: The OpenScout Tool Library, Demo at World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications (ED-MEDIA 2011), Lisbon, Portugal, AACE

Okada, A. and Barros, D. (2011) Using, adapting and authoring OER with Web 2.0 tools, World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications (ED-MEDIA 2011), Lisbon, Portugal

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