creators_name: G., Nagarjuna creators_id: nagarjun@gnowledge.org type: preprint datestamp: 2009-08-13 20:05:39 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:57:24 metadata_visibility: show title: Collaborative Creation of Teaching-Learning Sequences and an Atlas of Knowledge subjects: appl-cog-psy subjects: phil-epist subjects: ling-sem subjects: comp-sci-art-intel full_text_status: public keywords: prerequisites, education, teaching-learning seqeunces, semantic networks, concept mapping, knowledge cartography, network theory of meaning, road map of knowledge, collaborative portals abstract: The article is about a new online resource, a collaborative portal for teachers, which publishes a network of prerequisites for teaching/learning any concept or an activity. A simple and effective method of collaboratively constructing teaching­-learning sequences is presented. The special emergent properties of the dependency network and their didactic and epistemic implications are pointed. 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