Digital knowledge maps are at a glance visualrepresentations that enable enriching, imaginative and transformative ways for teaching andlearning, with the potential to enhance positive educationaloutcomes. The use of such maps hasgenerated much attention and interest among tertiary educationpractitioners and researchers over the last few years ashigher education institutions around the world begin toinvestheavily into new technologies designed to provide online spaces within which to buildresources and conduct activities. The key elements of this edited volume will comprise original and innovative contributions to existing scholarship in this field, with examples of pedagogical possibilities as they are currentlypracticed across a range of contexts. It will contain chapters that address, theory, research andpractical issues related to the use of digital knowledge maps in all aspects of tertiary educationand draws predominantly on international perspectives with a diverse group of invited contributors. Reports on empirical studies as well as theoretical/conceptual chapters that engagedeeply with pertinent questions and issues raised from a pedagogical, social, cultural, philosophical, and/or ethical standpoint are included. Systematic literature reviews dealing with digital knowledge mapping in education are also an integral part of the volume.

Part I:Digital Knowledge Maps in Open, Distance, and Flexible Learning Contexts -- Digital Knowledge Mapping in Educational Contexts / Ria Hanewald, Dirk Ifenthaler -- Making Sense of Knowledge Integration Maps / Beat A. Schwendimann -- Concept Maps for Comprehension and Navigation of Hypertexts / Franck Amadieu, Ladislao Salmerón -- Using Digital Knowledge Maps for Supporting Tutors Giving Effective Explanations / Andreas Lachner, Matthias Nückles -- Investigating Through Concept Mapping Pre-service Teachers' Thinking Progression About "e-Learning" and Its Integration into Teaching / Wan Ng -- Concept Mapping in Graduate Education / Scott R. Garrigan -- Part II: Digital Knowledge Maps in Collaborative Learning Contexts -- Collaborative Work with Digital Knowledge Maps on Improving ESL Learners' Reading Skills / Pei-Lin Liu -- Researching Individual and Collaborative Pair Learning in Primary School Students Using Digital Knowledge Maps for Science Education / Andreanna K. Koufou, Marida I. Ergazaki, Vassilis I. Komis, Vassiliki P. Zogza -- Towards a Cultural Historical Theory of Knowledge Mapping: Collaboration and Activity in the Zone of Proximal Development / John Cripps Clark -- Developing Australian Undergraduate Students' Science Communication Skills Through Collaboratively Created Digital Knowledge Maps / Ria Hanewald, Dirk Ifenthaler -- Using Novakian Concept Maps to Foster Peer Collaboration in Higher Education / Paulo Correia, Camila Cicuto, Joana Aguiar -- Part III: Advances in Assessment Using Digital Knowledge Maps -- Assessment for Learning Using Digital Knowledge Maps / David L. Trumpower, Mehmet Filiz, Gul Shahzad Sarwar -- Sequentially Analyzing and Modeling Causal Mapping Processes that Support Causal Understanding and Systems Thinking / Allan Jeong -- Gainfully Guided Misconception / Pablo Pirnay-Dummer -- Digital Concept Mapping for Formative Assessment / Heiko Krabbe -- Digital Knowledge Maps: The Foundation for Learning Analytics Through Instructional Games / Debbie Denise Reese -- Part IV: Case Studies Investigating Digital Knowledge Maps -- Digital Knowledge Mapping as an Instructional Strategy to Enhance Knowledge Convergence: A Case Study / Darryl C. Draper, Robert F. Amason Jr. -- Shared Cognitions in a Field of Informal Education: Knowledge Maps Towards Money Management of Young Adults / Daniela Barry, Nina Bender, Klaus Breuer, Dirk Ifenthaler -- Predispositions to Concept Mapping: Case Studies of Four Disciplines in Higher Education / Gregory MacKinnon, Rohan Bailey, Patricia Livingston, Vernon L. Provencal and Jon Saklovske.