QMaps: Engaging Students in Voluntary Question Generation and Linking

CHI. Early evidence that learners can create structured knowledge artifacts that support study.

Authors: Iman YeckehZaare, Tirdad Barghi, Paul Resnick · Venue/status: CHI · Year: 2020 · DOI · Source page

QMaps studied a collaborative learning process in which students generated multiple-choice questions and linked them into a visual prerequisite map. It is an early version of the idea that learners can produce useful structured knowledge artifacts, not only consume course material. This paper is part of the lineage from learner-generated question maps to 1Cademy-style micro-topic graphs. It tested whether voluntary contribution could be sustained and whether students could make meaningful prerequisite links.

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