Article info.

ABSTRACT

Received 18 Apr 2018
Revised 17 May 2018

Accepted 29 Mar 2019

Mind Maps are a useful teaching and learning tool. They could enable the skills of communication, collaboration, critical thinking and creativity which are identified as super skills being required for success in the 21^st century. This paper suggests using OKMindmap to create a new open educational resource (OER) model called Big Book as an innovative educational method. The book was intended as an online collaborative learning environment where multiple sources of information such as video clips, images, sounds, texts and hyperlinks could be added as nodes of OKMindmap. It was trialed with the tenth graders at Teacher Practice High School of Can Tho University for one year. The results of the trial were positive. The students were interested in this new mode of learning since they could create their own Big Book by gathering information available on the web or design their own study plan which can be easily shared. The findings point to the feasibility of creating a Big Book for Vietnamese learners as the design of the Big Book was made easier and more affordable than ever in the age of technology.

Keywords

ICT in education, OER, Big Book, OKMindmap, WebQuest

Cited as: Diem, B.L., Kim, Y.G., Trang, B.L.D. and Ho, W., 2019. Towards a new open educational resource model using OKMindmap. Can Tho University Journal of Science. 11(1): 42-48.