We could visualize our concepts in maps, and that's basically what the course is about, how we create
conceptual maps to visualize our and our coworkers concepts.
So what is a concern map then?
So you will learn in this course to analyze, develop and organize concepts visually in maps, and how
does a concept map look like he looks like this.
So it's quite simple.
It's a map with a couple of boxes and lines and arrows maybe and maybe some names on the lines.
How hard could it be?
Could you say, yeah, I will tell you and I will show you that it becomes a little bit harder than
you might think.
But it's still it's very much worth it.
So here I have a simple concept map saying that you can have an agreement that's regulating the use
of a product.
An agreement could be stated in a couple of statements.
And the agreement is something that we write between clients and suppliers.
OK, so I connect a couple of key concepts in the business to mean together in a map.
So it's a graphical tool that represents knowledge and organizes the knowledge and it shows the concepts
and it shows the relationships between the concepts.
And he labels the concept with terms that we use to refer to them.
You could also specify the relationship of the concept and the connection then between two concepts
and the relationship that is specified makes up a proposition.
So in this case, an agreement regulates the use of a product.
I'm no, I'm using a little bit fancy terms here, but in the whole section of the philosophic philosophical
background of this, I will teach you everything you need to know about what a proposition is and a
relationship and concepts in this more formal sense.
So don't get afraid about that right now.
So why should we use this term?
We use it to boost our knowledge acquisition potential to actually acquire knowledge faster.
We use it to make our communication and teaching crystal clear.
So that we teach other people what we know much faster and better.
We use it to develop better and more accurate businesses, institutions, software systems, products
and theories.
So in every type of system building, no matter if it's a software or as a business, you need to have
a conceptualized view about what the system should support.
Without that, you will never create a system that works.
So it's a key, key tool to use very, very early on in any type of system ization activity.
And it actually improves your creative thinking, and I'm going to talk about that later on in the cognitive
section, how that actually works.
So so what's the history of concept mapping then, so concept mapping, not concepts, of course, but
concept mapping was developed during the 70s by Joseph Nye work for measuring and analyzing knowledge
development in children and has been a central tool in most approaches of system development or any
scientific theory building.
It's not only, of course, Joseph who developed this has been developed in other areas as well, but
he made it famous in the psychological subdomain.
And let's take a concrete example of a little bit of a larger map here, so you Timmy, you know what
you is when I was approaching you and me the first time, I usually create a concept map about a new
site or a product or a phenomena or whatever it is, so I can start learning it faster.
Since I'm going to be an instructor here, I need to know how you to me is thinking, so to speak,
and get into a language.
So you can point out that I'm in this structure and I'm delivering courses.
Right.
Of course, have a curriculum and a curriculum includes sections, a section includes lectures or quizzes,
and the lecture have content.
So the content could be a different type, for example, with your audio, etc..
I also find more or less an instruction agreement with you to me that regulates the sales of my course.
So course also have a promo video and guests are watching the promo video.
So both a guest and in structure are users.
So that's roles that a user can play.
And, of course, could have a valid coupon code that you can use as a guest to buy a course.
So when you are then actually buying a course, then you become as a student and you could use coupon
code to do a course purchase.
When you purchase a course, you will be getting a course instance, which is an instance of that course
that you purchased.
And within that instance, you can have lecture completion rates on each lecture.
And of course, you can have quick results on the quizzes.
So what this gives you isn't quite good overview about how the language that is used to explain and
describe you to me works.
And that is what a concept map is about.
And of course, this is just a simple example.
And it's my kind of high level view that I sketched out myself is nothing that is that you really have
created.
So Joseph Nowak is saying that many learners and teachers are surprised to see how this simple tool
facilitates meaningful learning and the creation of powerful knowledge frameworks that do not only permit
utilization of the knowledge in new contexts, but also the retention of the knowledge for long periods.
And I'm going to show you that again in the cognitive section and also the philosophical part.
So the applications are almost unlimited, so you will use concepts map for, for example, no taking
and summarizing key concepts of relationships and hierarchy from source material.
When you're reading and trying to learn something or when you're examining the symmetry of a complex
idea or argument or transformation or tacit knowledge into organizational resource.
So we have people retiring and you have new people coming in and you need to get the knowledge out there,
so to speak, from the from the older people to the new people because they need to know.
Right.
And it's a very powerful technique to use in that context when you're communicating complex ideas and
arguments so you can use them, as I'm doing here in this course.
Also in the course I'm going to use concept mapping is one of the techniques to convey the complex ideas
I'm talking about are when you're detailing the entire structure of an idea or line of argument for
the scrutiny of others, it makes it easier for them to review your thoughts if you also visualize them.
And here's a key application area, of course, in any type of system building.
So when you're building business models, products, institutions, scientific theories, that is basically
creating conceptual maps.
In the very essence, it's about creating conceptual frameworks.
And of course, the special case of that, when you're developing software, I don't know if you've
seen a database model or information model, they are always starting off as conceptual maps.
And, of course, to be able to create metrics or measuring the business performance, if you don't
know what your what the concept of a customer is, how could you even measure it?
So you need to have a very specific idea about your key concepts to be able to measure them in your
business, how you can probably find dozens or more applications here to use.
So what have we said, we said that concepts are the constituents of thoughts.
It's the building blocks by which we are creating thoughts.
We've said that concept mapping is a visual tool that helps we boost knowledge acquisition, communication,
system, development, creativity.
And we've said that the applications are almost unlimited, great.
And now I'm going to tell you a little bit about the core structure and the goals and don't be rushing
off to see you that.