A fellow Meta-Learning Lab member,

A fellow Meta-Learning Lab member, Claudia L, is exploring concept maps, both as a learning tool and an aspect of her work in second-order cybernetics. We talked about the topic on the drive back to Berkeley after the January meeting of eLearning Forum.

Concept maps are cool. They appear to be mind maps on steroids. For one thing, the links themselves are labeled, e.g. X leads to Y, X includes Y, X hinges on Y, etc. Also, it's more natural for a node to have multiple antecedents. NASAs concept maps for the Mars expedition are the front-end for an incredible amount of information: papers, links, second-level maps, etc.

What a nifty tool. I will explore using concept maps in internettime.com.

More info at: The Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC) was founded by the Florida legislature in 1990 as an interdisciplinary research unit of the University of West Florida. Since that time, IHMC has grown into a well-respected research institute with over 70 researchers investigating a broad range of topics related to understanding cognition in both humans and machines with a particular emphasis on building computational tools to leverage and amplify human cognitive and perceptual capacities.