Certificate in Online Education

Concept maps are graphical tools for organizing and representing knowledge. Concept mapping may be an effective teaching tool to create:

• Course material to creatively engage your students.
• To help students to help finding linkages between course concepts or theories
• To assess students' learning or understanding of course material

A concept map include:

• Concepts, usually enclosed in circles or boxes of some type, and relationships between concepts indicated by a connecting line linking two concepts.
• Links: linking words or linking phrases, specify the relationship between the two concepts. We define concept as a perceived regularity in events or objects, or records of events or objects, designated by a label.
• Propositions: contain two or more concepts connected using linking words or phrases to form a meaningful statement.

This is an example of a concept map that describes the structure of concept maps and illustrates the above characteristics.