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What is a Concept Map? (2009)
maps are graphical tools for organizing and representing knowledge. They include concepts, usually enclosed in circles or boxes of some type, and relationships between concepts indicated by a connecting line linking two concepts.
Concept maps tend to be represented in a graphically hierarchical fashion following this conceptual hierarchy. In the case of a school-learning environment, it may be important to have the learner go back and construct a concept map that responds the original focus question. As such, there are no predefined vocabularies of concepts and linking words, and therefore the resulting propositions are for the most part not "formal" or "precise" enough for computers to interpret and reason upon.
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