[M1]contemporary trends

- workshop -Concept mapping

the contemporary trends

Concept mapping

A map is...

A representation of a system intended to someone to help find their way

A Concept Map is a representation of a system

All concept maps:● Sacrifice accuracy for comprehensibility● Try to answer a question● Rarely has a “beginning” and an “end”● Force selectivity, abstraction, prioritization and

hierarchy● Are visual - a tool for perception● Are semantic - a tool for cognition● It is a way to organise and represent knowledge

Nodes (nouns) are concepts

Arcs (verbs) link the concepts

Identifying relations - matrix discussion -

1. Lets form groups of three people2. Introduce your individual assignment output to fellow

group members (the 20 most important concepts, that in your opinion represent the current research trends)

3. Collaboratively eliminate the overlapping and less important concepts between yourselves and try to come up with only 30 concepts per each group

4. Fill the empty matrix template with these 30 concepts, plotting them against each other

5. Identify relationships between the concepts - these are qualitative and require interpretation.

6. It’s a negotiation process!

Creating the concept map

1. Use CMapTools2. Decide on main concepts of the map based on

frequency of connections as well as common sense. The most frequent concepts should build the skeleton of the map.

3. Fill in the rest of the structure (with leftover concepts - let yourself be guided by the matrix), in order to represent all the elements in the system.

4. As you add concepts to the map, connect them with arcs (usually verbs) to formulate meaningful sentences.

5. Export your concept map as a picture to the shared folder and present the result by the end of this session (3-5 min).