Use in teaching and research
* Identifying relationships between concept
* Facilitates understanding, retention and recall
* Better structured knowledge and reasoning
* Knowledge is processed and actively revised
* Allows for reflexive thinking, self-dialogue and creative associations
* Stimulates the exploration/resolution of cognitive conflicts

Concept mapping: a fruitful exercise
* Understand the process of mapping
* Begin with a simple topic, using a small number of concepts
* Work through example(s)?
* Think about all possible links
* Write down the nature of the links
* There is no single “correct” answer
* Use arrows and their direction in describing the proposition.