Using concept maps to support the design of mobile learning processes

In this paper we present an experience of using concept maps to design learning activities in the framework of an educational project based on hand-held devices, named MoULe - Mobile and Ubiquitous Learning, run at the Italian National Research Council, Institute for Educational Technologies After an introduction on the potentials of concept maps in education and on the MoULe project, we illustrate how teachers from two high schools have collaborated to produce two concept maps to be used by students in their respective schools. The different pedagogical orientation of the two schools is clearly reflected in the produced maps, thus proving the potential of concept maps to communicate explicit as well as tacit knowledge.