A Universitas Negeri Malang researcher has repeatedly coauthored Kit-Build concept mapping studies with MGM, a research coauthorship rather than a signed institutional partnership.
Didik Dwi Prasetya holds appointments at both Universitas Negeri Malang and Hiroshima University, and that dual footing has made him a recurring coauthor on concept mapping research alongside MGM's Aryo Pinandito.
Their clearest joint paper is "Design and Development of Semi-Automatic Concept Map Authoring Support Tool," published in Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning in 2021, coauthored by Pinandito, Prasetya, and Hiroshima University's Yusuke Hayashi and Tsukasa Hirashima. The paper describes a tool that helps teachers build Kit-Build concept maps, a format where students reconstruct a concept map from a set of provided pieces rather than drawing one from scratch, and the study looked at ways to make authoring those maps less time consuming for instructors.
The same core group, MGM's Pinandito together with Hiroshima University's Hayashi and Hirashima, kept publishing Kit-Build research in the years after. A 2024 paper in the same journal, "Evaluating the Kit-Build Concept Mapping Process Using Sub-Map Scoring," proposed a way to score the smaller sub-maps a student builds along the way, not just their finished map, as a closer measure of how well they actually understood the material. Its other coauthors, Ridwan Rismanto and Banni Satria Andoko, are affiliated with Politeknik Negeri Malang, a separate Malang institution covered elsewhere on this site, rather than with Universitas Negeri Malang.
It is worth being precise about the shape of this connection. Prasetya's coauthorship with Pinandito is a real, repeated research relationship, documented across more than one paper in the same journal, but it is a tie between two researchers and their Hiroshima University collaborators, not a signed agreement between Universitas Negeri Malang and MGM as institutions. Universitas Negeri Malang itself is a public university historically focused on teacher education, a natural fit for Prasetya's interest in classroom tools like concept mapping.
For MGM, the connection to Universitas Negeri Malang, through Prasetya's work with Pinandito, shows how a single research interest, here making concept maps easier to build and score, can sustain a coauthorship across years and multiple papers without ever needing a formal institutional partnership behind it.
