Forum LAMS for Tech-Heads - General Forum: Re: Re: Μind Map or Concept/Mind Map

By: Daniel Schneider

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The difference may be insignificant in terms of graphing, but pedagogically speaking it is not. There is actually an enormous difference between what typical mind map people and typical concept map people advocate. Btw. the learning theory/psychology behind is also very different. Mind mappers are into left/right brain vodoo stuff, concept mappers into learning psychology.

Mind map: brainstorming, de-assembling a concept, etc., size is usually huge

Concept map: think & integrate, size is usually small.

A technical difference other than being able to label arcs is that most concept mapping software allows users to annotate nodes, even add files to it. CMAP, VUE and Compendium are such systems.

Btw all of these are stand-alone applications (integration with LAMS difficult). The only decent online system I know and that can do concept maps is (commercial) webspiration.

Posted by Daniel Schneider