Time: 12:00 pm Central
By using a concept map, you have a visual tool to depict a set of ideas by linking them and explaining the connections. Concept maps provide a powerful way to help students organize, represent, and understand knowledge.
First coined by Novak and Gowin in 1984, concept maps now have many updated uses in classrooms to help students grasp the connections between key points.
Concept mapping may be applied in any academic discipline to make better sense of a reading, document learning or thinking, or brainstorm a project. Used expertly, they can substantially increase student understanding of difficult topics.
There is growing recognition of the value of using a variety of formats and styles in teaching and facilitating. With concept maps, faculty members can broaden their teaching repertoire while showing students how to learn in authentic and active ways.
In Concept Mapping: How Visual Connections Can Improve Learning, Alice Cassidy, Ph.D. will introduce the idea of concept mapping and explain how it can be used to facilitate explanations and raise achievement in the classroom.
This audio online seminar will cover:
•Examples of concept and mind maps
•How and why to use concept mapping in your courses
•The appeal of concept maps to visual learners
•Where to find concept mapping software online
•Drawing concepts maps by hand or by using software applications
•Different types of maps: spokes, trees, center-focus and visual metaphor
•Using concept maps to increase engagement and foster creative connections
•Which model of concept map works best in your discipline
•An overview of the research support for this learning method
•Multiple suggested uses for concept maps
•Important Do’s and Don’ts when using concept mapping
In this hands-on seminar, you will complete your own concept map and learn strategies for incorporating maps into your daily professional activities.
Who should attend?
This seminar is designed for those involved in college instruction, including:
•College and university professors
•Adjunct and distance education faculty
•Academic affairs
•Faculty developers and trainers
A great value!
Professors and students in every discipline can benefit from the application of concept mapping. For one low registration fee of $229, you can offer this live, 75-minute audio online seminar with Adobe Connect to faculty members and academic trainers across your entire campus. This offer applies to a single, sign-on location only; to take full advantage of this opportunity, reserve a large meeting room or conference center in advance.
Your presenter
Alice Cassidy is Principal of Alice Cassidy In View Education and Professional Development. For the past fifteen years, she held leadership roles at The University of British Columbia’s Centre for Teaching and Academic Growth and the Institute for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.
Her areas of focus include active and participatory learning, professional development for organizations, use of self-directed learning, problems and cases in real-world settings, instructional and narrative skills, and students as active collaborators in the scholarship of teaching and learning.
Discover one of the most dynamic ways of getting students involved with course material. Learn how to use concept mapping in your courses by enrolling for this upcoming seminar today.
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