Reconciling Instructors' and Students' Course Overlap Perspectives via Linked Data Visualization

• Builds a concept-level curriculum ontology to model cross-course overlap — distinguishing course-level from concept-level (subcourse) granularity. Uses linked data + network graphs to visualise shared concepts between courses.
• 'Concepts' over lap among courses - a perspective of students and faculty and how to reconcile it
• Ontology representing concept-level granularity
  • Offers instructors aid in populating course content
  • Visualization and manipulation of data
• 25 course instructors employed the visualization tools to address a perceived course overlap problem
• Forced-Node visualization of the concepts overlap between finance and accounting courses (Fig 3)
• Sanky diagram presenting connections between marketing and other courses (Fig 4)

Relevance

• This is the closest published work to Concept Map tab. Validates "concept-level granularity" as the right unit of analysis over course-level. The heatmap (courses × concepts matrix) and network graph in your dashboard implement exactly this approach.