Concept mapping

Information about the generation and usage of concept mapping in life, teaching, and research.

Pros

 * 1) Visual (e.g., a picture can say a 1000 words)

Cons

 * 1) More difficult to edit than text or tables

Concept mapping vs. mind mapping
Although concept mapping and mind mapping are often treated as synonymous, the following distinctions are suggested:

Modes

 * 1) Draw in the sand with a stick
 * 2) Paper and pencil
 * 3) Blackboard/Whiteboard
 * 4) Post-it stickers
 * 5) Computer software

Styles
There is no limit to the ways in which concept maps might be constructed, however here are some common approaches:
 * 1) Place the key concept at the centre, with all other concepts radiating  outwards from the centre.
 * 2) Hierarchical (e.g., top-down / bottom-up) in which concepts cascade into sub-concepts, and so on.
 * 3) Consider labelling the connections/paths - this generally creates a richer, more meaningful map.

Examples

 * 1) Introduction to concept mapping (Slideshare)
 * 2) /Gallery/

Software

 * 1) List of concept mapping software
 * 2) List of mind mapping software

Offline

 * Open Office Portable - Download and install (so we can use OO Draw)

Online

 * MindMeister

Master

 * odg
 * svg

Exported

 * gif
 * png
 * svg

Milestones
The milestones would better emerge from the wider context enough to understand why and how the concept map or the like came into being, not to mention what it is all about. Maybe not accidentally, it began to emerge and evolve parallel with the Internet-cum-hypertext-cum-PDP (parallel distributed processing) and above all the contextualist-cum-constructivist against positivist-cum-analytic philosophy, starting from the late 1970s. As such, it is not only deductive analysis but also inductive synthesis and guess.

Advance organizers revisited, 1978

 * See also
 * Ausubel (1978)
 * Ausubel; Novak; Hanesian (1978)
 * Novak (1977)
 * Concept map
 * http://wik.ed.uiuc.edu/index.php/Advance_organizers

Information design, 1970s

 * From graphic design


 * From statistics

WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project, 1990

 * http://www.w3.org/Proposal.html


 * Original proposal

Case studies

 * Concept mapping: the case with itself

Subpages

 * /Tasks/
 * /Gallery/
 * /Workshop/