I still have doubts, but it is good to be home. SemNet supports collaborative endeavors such as curriculum development by teams of professionals or building a community of learners among students. Collaboration leads to conversation which, in conjunction with the skeletal frameworks of ideas that serve as manipulable reference objects for discussion, results in clarification of understanding and consensus-building. Diagnosing and Developing Cognitive Skills. SemNet can help individuals develop systematic thinking skills for organizing and comprehending denotative factual knowledge.
Instructors can diagnose many student learning problems by examining nets they have constructed.
Students use SemNet to support their own personal knowledge construction. It provides scaffolding, guides organizing and thinking strategies, and serves as an external extension of short term memory. Individuals use SemNet to construct their family trees, keep track of their committees, and analyze topics of interest to them such as the structure of the organization in which they work. Qualitative Research Tool. SemNet is also useful as a qualitative research tool.