#5973. Net.Create: Network Visualization to Support Collaborative Historical Knowledge Building

August 2026publication date
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Abstract:
Students across disciplines struggle with sensemaking when they are faced with the need to understand and analyze massive amounts of information. This is particularly salient in the disciplines of both history and data science. Our approach to helping students build expertise with complex information leverages activity theory to think about the design of a classroom activity system integrated with the design of a collaborative open-source network-analysis software tool called Net.Create. Through analysis of network log data as well as video data of students’ collaborative interactions with Net.Create, we explore how our activity system helped students reconcile common contradictions that create barriers to dealing with complex datasets in large lecture classrooms.
Keywords:
Activity theory; History education; Knowledge building; Network analysis; Representational practices

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