WEBVTT 00:10.400 --> 00:16.550 We could visualize our concepts in maps, and that's basically what the course is about, how we create 00:16.550 --> 00:21.110 conceptual maps to visualize our and our coworkers concepts. 00:22.040 --> 00:23.360 So what is a concern map then? 00:25.420 --> 00:31.690 So you will learn in this course to analyze, develop and organize concepts visually in maps, and how 00:31.690 --> 00:33.730 does a concept map look like he looks like this. 00:33.880 --> 00:34.990 So it's quite simple. 00:34.990 --> 00:42.000 It's a map with a couple of boxes and lines and arrows maybe and maybe some names on the lines. 00:42.250 --> 00:43.280 How hard could it be? 00:43.300 --> 00:49.270 Could you say, yeah, I will tell you and I will show you that it becomes a little bit harder than 00:49.270 --> 00:49.840 you might think. 00:50.380 --> 00:52.970 But it's still it's very much worth it. 00:54.740 --> 01:00.980 So here I have a simple concept map saying that you can have an agreement that's regulating the use 01:00.980 --> 01:01.670 of a product. 01:02.540 --> 01:05.180 An agreement could be stated in a couple of statements. 01:05.180 --> 01:09.290 And the agreement is something that we write between clients and suppliers. 01:09.560 --> 01:15.410 OK, so I connect a couple of key concepts in the business to mean together in a map. 01:16.970 --> 01:24.340 So it's a graphical tool that represents knowledge and organizes the knowledge and it shows the concepts 01:24.890 --> 01:27.620 and it shows the relationships between the concepts. 01:29.920 --> 01:34.090 And he labels the concept with terms that we use to refer to them. 01:35.410 --> 01:41.620 You could also specify the relationship of the concept and the connection then between two concepts 01:41.620 --> 01:45.370 and the relationship that is specified makes up a proposition. 01:46.090 --> 01:49.550 So in this case, an agreement regulates the use of a product. 01:49.600 --> 01:55.120 I'm no, I'm using a little bit fancy terms here, but in the whole section of the philosophic philosophical 01:55.120 --> 01:59.290 background of this, I will teach you everything you need to know about what a proposition is and a 01:59.290 --> 02:02.640 relationship and concepts in this more formal sense. 02:03.370 --> 02:05.640 So don't get afraid about that right now. 02:06.220 --> 02:07.810 So why should we use this term? 02:09.100 --> 02:15.090 We use it to boost our knowledge acquisition potential to actually acquire knowledge faster. 02:16.270 --> 02:20.170 We use it to make our communication and teaching crystal clear. 02:21.140 --> 02:26.310 So that we teach other people what we know much faster and better. 02:28.830 --> 02:35.130 We use it to develop better and more accurate businesses, institutions, software systems, products 02:35.130 --> 02:35.880 and theories. 02:36.180 --> 02:42.060 So in every type of system building, no matter if it's a software or as a business, you need to have 02:42.060 --> 02:46.500 a conceptualized view about what the system should support. 02:47.250 --> 02:50.430 Without that, you will never create a system that works. 02:50.970 --> 02:57.540 So it's a key, key tool to use very, very early on in any type of system ization activity. 02:59.530 --> 03:05.920 And it actually improves your creative thinking, and I'm going to talk about that later on in the cognitive 03:05.920 --> 03:07.510 section, how that actually works. 03:09.280 --> 03:14.140 So so what's the history of concept mapping then, so concept mapping, not concepts, of course, but 03:14.140 --> 03:19.540 concept mapping was developed during the 70s by Joseph Nye work for measuring and analyzing knowledge 03:19.540 --> 03:25.390 development in children and has been a central tool in most approaches of system development or any 03:25.390 --> 03:26.650 scientific theory building. 03:27.370 --> 03:31.810 It's not only, of course, Joseph who developed this has been developed in other areas as well, but 03:31.810 --> 03:35.530 he made it famous in the psychological subdomain. 03:37.930 --> 03:42.730 And let's take a concrete example of a little bit of a larger map here, so you Timmy, you know what 03:42.730 --> 03:50.830 you is when I was approaching you and me the first time, I usually create a concept map about a new 03:50.830 --> 03:56.110 site or a product or a phenomena or whatever it is, so I can start learning it faster. 03:56.350 --> 04:02.680 Since I'm going to be an instructor here, I need to know how you to me is thinking, so to speak, 04:03.370 --> 04:04.600 and get into a language. 04:05.560 --> 04:10.090 So you can point out that I'm in this structure and I'm delivering courses. 04:10.090 --> 04:10.510 Right. 04:11.350 --> 04:17.830 Of course, have a curriculum and a curriculum includes sections, a section includes lectures or quizzes, 04:18.550 --> 04:20.170 and the lecture have content. 04:20.770 --> 04:24.220 So the content could be a different type, for example, with your audio, etc.. 04:25.720 --> 04:32.500 I also find more or less an instruction agreement with you to me that regulates the sales of my course. 04:33.040 --> 04:37.850 So course also have a promo video and guests are watching the promo video. 04:38.050 --> 04:40.440 So both a guest and in structure are users. 04:40.570 --> 04:42.940 So that's roles that a user can play. 04:44.190 --> 04:51.400 And, of course, could have a valid coupon code that you can use as a guest to buy a course. 04:52.140 --> 05:01.050 So when you are then actually buying a course, then you become as a student and you could use coupon 05:01.050 --> 05:03.870 code to do a course purchase. 05:04.620 --> 05:09.630 When you purchase a course, you will be getting a course instance, which is an instance of that course 05:09.630 --> 05:10.410 that you purchased. 05:10.560 --> 05:15.920 And within that instance, you can have lecture completion rates on each lecture. 05:16.020 --> 05:18.520 And of course, you can have quick results on the quizzes. 05:19.080 --> 05:27.270 So what this gives you isn't quite good overview about how the language that is used to explain and 05:27.270 --> 05:28.710 describe you to me works. 05:29.610 --> 05:31.790 And that is what a concept map is about. 05:31.950 --> 05:34.140 And of course, this is just a simple example. 05:34.140 --> 05:39.750 And it's my kind of high level view that I sketched out myself is nothing that is that you really have 05:39.960 --> 05:40.380 created. 05:42.740 --> 05:47.810 So Joseph Nowak is saying that many learners and teachers are surprised to see how this simple tool 05:47.810 --> 05:53.270 facilitates meaningful learning and the creation of powerful knowledge frameworks that do not only permit 05:53.270 --> 05:59.200 utilization of the knowledge in new contexts, but also the retention of the knowledge for long periods. 05:59.630 --> 06:04.310 And I'm going to show you that again in the cognitive section and also the philosophical part. 06:06.050 --> 06:12.830 So the applications are almost unlimited, so you will use concepts map for, for example, no taking 06:12.830 --> 06:16.610 and summarizing key concepts of relationships and hierarchy from source material. 06:16.610 --> 06:21.530 When you're reading and trying to learn something or when you're examining the symmetry of a complex 06:21.530 --> 06:27.320 idea or argument or transformation or tacit knowledge into organizational resource. 06:27.320 --> 06:32.360 So we have people retiring and you have new people coming in and you need to get the knowledge out there, 06:32.360 --> 06:37.340 so to speak, from the from the older people to the new people because they need to know. 06:37.460 --> 06:37.810 Right. 06:38.240 --> 06:44.180 And it's a very powerful technique to use in that context when you're communicating complex ideas and 06:44.180 --> 06:48.110 arguments so you can use them, as I'm doing here in this course. 06:48.110 --> 06:55.220 Also in the course I'm going to use concept mapping is one of the techniques to convey the complex ideas 06:55.220 --> 07:01.190 I'm talking about are when you're detailing the entire structure of an idea or line of argument for 07:01.190 --> 07:06.500 the scrutiny of others, it makes it easier for them to review your thoughts if you also visualize them. 07:07.070 --> 07:11.020 And here's a key application area, of course, in any type of system building. 07:11.030 --> 07:17.090 So when you're building business models, products, institutions, scientific theories, that is basically 07:17.240 --> 07:19.310 creating conceptual maps. 07:20.180 --> 07:23.930 In the very essence, it's about creating conceptual frameworks. 07:25.740 --> 07:30.030 And of course, the special case of that, when you're developing software, I don't know if you've 07:30.030 --> 07:35.970 seen a database model or information model, they are always starting off as conceptual maps. 07:38.670 --> 07:42.540 And, of course, to be able to create metrics or measuring the business performance, if you don't 07:42.540 --> 07:47.680 know what your what the concept of a customer is, how could you even measure it? 07:48.120 --> 07:54.840 So you need to have a very specific idea about your key concepts to be able to measure them in your 07:54.840 --> 07:59.190 business, how you can probably find dozens or more applications here to use. 08:00.900 --> 08:04.560 So what have we said, we said that concepts are the constituents of thoughts. 08:04.590 --> 08:07.990 It's the building blocks by which we are creating thoughts. 08:08.600 --> 08:15.900 We've said that concept mapping is a visual tool that helps we boost knowledge acquisition, communication, 08:15.900 --> 08:17.790 system, development, creativity. 08:19.030 --> 08:24.050 And we've said that the applications are almost unlimited, great. 08:24.100 --> 08:28.360 And now I'm going to tell you a little bit about the core structure and the goals and don't be rushing 08:28.360 --> 08:29.920 off to see you that.