Volume Two - Academic Conferences

Sónia Sousa et al.
The concepts on the each original concept map were assigned a unique color. Thus the concepts
on Figure 1 were assigned a red color, the concepts on Figure 2 – a blue color, and the concepts
on Figure 3 – a yellow color.
The three original concept maps were then copied onto a single canvas and duplicate concepts,
found on the original maps, were merged together.
As the duplicate concepts were found and merged, they were assigned a new color. The merging
of yellow and blue concepts was marked as green; red and yellow concepts were marked as
orange; blue and red were marked as purple; red, yellow and blue were marked as white.
Figure 2: The eLearning experts view on what are online learning communities
Figure 3: The eLearning researcher view on what are online learning communities
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