* creates associations between ideas
* Its unconstrained structure sets no limit on the ideas and links created, thus promotes creative thinking and brainstorming.
* Enhances memory retention with its diagrammatic presentation

Advantages of Mind Map

* It is limited to simple associations without logically-clear links between ideas
* It fails to deal with more complex relationships which require relational analysis between ideas
* It is hard to read by others 
* It represents only simple hierarchy relationships in radial form
* It is inconsistent in its level of detail
* It can become too complex and fail to deal with the big picture of the whole problem

Disadvantages of Mind Map

Mind map is a network of connected and related concepts. The connections in mind map is free-form and any idea could be connected to any other as long as there is certain association between ideas.

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Visually representing knowledge to facilitate its communication.
It can be done using a computer or not.

Knowledge Visualization

- Lists
- Hypertext
- Hybrid Maps
- Concept Maps
- Mind Maps
- Knowledge Maps
- Argument Maps
- Decision Trees
- Cognitive Maps
- Conceptual Diagrams
- Visual Metaphors
- Venn Diagrams
- Fishbone Diagrams
- Tree Diagrams
- Causal Diagrams
- Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs)
- Affinity Diagrams

Knowledge Representation Methods

Davies, M. (2011). Concept mapping, mind mapping and argument mapping: what are the differences and do they matter?. Higher education, 62(3), 279-301.

Concept mapping, mind mapping and argument mapping: what are the differences and do they matter?

Knowledge Visualization Reference

User's Experience Measurements

Learning Measurements

- Knowledge Visualization Sketches
- Knowledge Visualization Diagrams
- Knowledge Visualization Images
- Knowledge Visualization Maps
- Knowledge Visualization Objects
- Knowledge Interactive Visualizations
- Knowledge Visualization Visions/Stories

Types of Knowledge Visualization

Help learners demonstrate logical and structural understanding of distinct concepts for critical thinking, knowledge representation, and meaning-making processes

Cognitive tools

- Positive interdependence
- Individual and group accountability
- Promotive interaction
- Appropriate use of required interpersonal and small group skills
- Group processing

Core components of Collaborative Learning 

Mind Mapping

- "… allows students to display inferential connections between propositions and contentions, and to evaluate them in terms of validity of argument structure and the soundness of argument premises"
- relatively recent innovation (2000)
- analyzes inferential structure of arguments 
- key feature: "…inferences between whole propositions"
- "...interested in the inferential basis for a claim being defended and not the causal or other associative relationships between the main claim and other claims"

Argument Mapping

Hybrid maps is a left-to-right  non-linear hierarchical structure in which paragraphs are visually linked to each other.

Hybrid Mapping

"Concept maps are graphical tools for organizing and representing knowledge." "We could think of a concept map as a set of categories, and that the relationship between these categories is expressed through connections with linking phrases."

Concept Maps

Lists are the most basic method of representing knowledge. Lists are essentially just a column of ideas, concepts, and terms that relate to the core topic. They can be useful when you need to quickly jot down your thoughts about the topic, or if you do not yet know how to organize those thoughts.

Lists

A directed acyclic graph, often abbreviated as DAG, is a graph that has no cycle. This means that all nodes eventually lead to designated endpoints. They show causal relationships between nodes, where one node is the cause and leads to another node(s), the effect(s). 


Directed Acyclic Graphs

Hypertext is a form of knowledge representation on computer devices where some elements from each page anchor to other pages.

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