Using E-Maps to Organize and Navigate Online Content
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E-maps visually represent complex information in an easy-to-understand format that shows the overall structure of subject content. I use the term e-maps for computer-generated mind maps, which were created by Tony Buzan in the late 1960s to help students take bet- ter notes using key words and images.
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The mind forms associations almost instantaneously, and the mind map approach helps students quickly relate a central word or concept to other pieces of information. A mind map makes information more meaningful than if it were just memorized because, like concept maps, it places the information in the context of existing knowledge. Furthermore, a mind map allows instructors to organize information into chunks, enabling students to remember more information for a longer time.
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An e-map can organize and sequence content nonlinearly on one web page by placing the main topic in an image-centered diagram with interrelated main and subtopic connections or branches in a radial format. E-mapping thus offers a powerful e-learning and organizational technique that visually displays main topics, subtopics, concepts, and images and the relationships between them.
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