CMC-AP 2017: The 1st Asian Pacific Conference on Concept Mapping Beijing Normal University Beijing, China, September 20-22, 2017 |
Conference website | http://www.smartchair.org/CMCAP2017 |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cmcap2017 |
Abstract registration deadline | July 20, 2017 |
Submission deadline | July 20, 2017 |
The 1st Asian Pacific Conference on Concept Mapping (CMC-AP 2017) will take place in Beijing, China from Sept 20-22, 2017.
The theme for CMC-AP 2017 will be Learning for Understanding the World and Ourselves. With the development of technology and society, processing but not owning, memorizing, or being able to access information becomes essential. Similarly, e.g., in mathematics, doing arithmetic or more advanced integrations or differentiations is becoming less important than describing the world with mathematical concepts and abstracting mathematical concepts from the world. Meaningful learning is the key to understanding, and concept mapping helps to develop the ability to learn meaningfully.
The 1st Asian Pacific Conference on Concept Mapping is a regional extension to the worldwide Concept Mapping Conference (CMC), and follows on the success of the first seven CMC Conferences held in Pamplona (Spain), San José (Costa Rica), Tallinn (Estonia) & Helsinki (Finland), Viña del Mar (Chile), Valletta (Malta), Santos (Brazil) and Tallinn (Estonia) in bringing together from all over the world scholars and practitioners interested in concept mapping. Considering the recent boost in number of users in the Asian and Pacific region, CMC-AP 2017 will be a chance to share thoughts and ideas on concept mapping for all users and researchers especially in the Asian and Pacific region. It is being organized by Beijing Normal University, Beihang University and the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA. (Follow these links for the Academic Program and links to papers from cmc2004, cmc2006, cmc2008 and cmc2010, cmc2012 , cmc2014 and cmc2016. All Proceedings can be downloaded from the CMC Proceedings Page).
The Conference is aimed at all persons interested in the use of concept maps (based on the work of Dr. Joseph Novak), including, but not limited to: facilitation of learning; eliciting, capturing, archiving, and using “expert” knowledge; planning instruction; assessment of “deep” understandings; research planning; collaborative knowledge modeling; creation of “knowledge portfolios”; curriculum design; eLearning, and administrative and strategic planning and monitoring. We expect participants from a broad range of fields presenting a wide variety of research and applications of concept mapping. All presentations at the conference are expected to include time for questions, answers, and scholarly discussion.
Languages
CMC-AP2017’s official language is English. However, some sessions will include simultaneous translation of oral presentations between Chinese and English. CMC-AP2017 offers the opportunity, both oral and posters, for presentations in English and Chinese. However, it will be the presenters’ job to communicate with their visitors for the poster sessions and for the sessions of micro-analysis and discussion of lecturing videos.
Presentation Categories
Presentation categories include:
- Oral Presentations of Research Work (with research paper)
- Oral Presentations of Innovative Experiences (with paper)
- Poster Presentation (with paper)
- Micro-analysis and discussion of activity videos (with paper)
All submissions will be evaluated and selected by the Program Committee.
- Oral Presentations with Research Paper: Full papers are reports of completed research accepted by a panel of experts and peers (the Program Committee) and will be published in the conference proceedings. There are three categories for papers: (a) empirical research, (b) model or theory development, and (c) theorizing from the literature. The time allotted for each session is 45 minutes (30 minutes presentation/15 minutes discussion). Audience participation, as a principle of adult education, is stressed. Full papers submissions have a length of up to 10 pages. Authors of accepted Oral Presentations with Paper are expected to physically attend the conference to present their paper in order for the paper to be included in the Proceedings and as part of the Program. Papers submitted but not accepted for Oral Presentation may be recommended accepted as a Poster Presentation with Paper. We recommend that a concept map summarizing the paper be included as part of the paper.
- Poster Presentations with Paper: The posters will form a visual display prepared by conference participants describing a research initiative, program, pedagogical model, and/or best practice on how concept mapping is applied in a variety of settings. Poster presentations serve as an effective forum for the exchange of information and a means to communicate ideas, research, and programs. Poster papers should have a maximum length of 4 pages and will be published in the conference proceedings. Authors of accepted Poster Presentations with Paper are expected to attend the conference to present and explain their poster. We recommend that a concept map summarizing the poster be included as part of the paper and in the poster.
- Innovative Experiences: These sessions will include several presentations, each 15 minutes, on Innovative Experiences in the use of concept mapping, whether it’s in the classroom, in industry, in organizations, or personal uses. Teachers are encouraged to share innovative ways of introducing or using concept mapping with their students, for curriculum design, etc. Practitioners are encouraged to present innovative uses of concept mapping in organizations, corporations, industry, consulting, etc. Measured, quantitative or qualitative results are not needed, as the focus is on sharing experiences, not research results. Authors need to submit a two-page description of their Innovative Experience. Authors of accepted Innovative Experiences are expected to physicaly attend the conference to present their work. If necessary, Innovative experiences presentations can be accompanied by one or more Micro-analysis presentations from the same author or authors from the same team. In that case, please make us aware of so in submitting the papers and videos. We recommend that a concept map summarizing the Innovative Experience be included as part of the paper.
- Micro-analysis and discussion of activity videos: These sessions will be 60 minutes long split between 30-minute videos of activities and 30 minutes audience participation. The conference will arrange an expert host for each of these discussions to organize discussion and also to comment on the activities. Submissions to these sessions are required to provide a video file, together with a paper to explain the central message of the video and intension of the author in presenting such an activity video. The paper can have maximum length of 4 pages. We recommend that a concept map summarizing the video be included as part of the paper. It is encouraged that the authors submit their videos and paper in a concept map form, ie. attach the edited/separated video files and the paper file to a concept map and upload the map to the Beijing Normal University Cmap Server, which can be accessed easily via CmapTools.
Authors of all accepted submissions need to pay the corresponding conference fee for the submission to be included in the Proceedings and included in the Academic Program of the conference.
All submissions (except videos) and registration will be done electronically through the CMC-AP2017 submissions webpage. For video submission, please contact cmcap2017@ihmc.us or bnufdc2016@163.com or QQ group 179341566(when join the QQ group please indicate “CMC+affiliation+Real Name”).
Please note that we have changed the submission system from EasyChair to SmartChair: www.smartchair.org/CMCAP2017/.
The Proceedings of the Conference will be published as a book and posted on the Conference website and also published by Beijing Normal University Press. A selected number of English-written papers will be included in the CMC2018 special volume book, while a selected number of Chinese-written papers will be recommended to be published in one of the following three journals Modern Educational Technology, Modern Distance Education Research and Open Education Research. Template of oral presentation papers (in doc format) is provided here.
Submission Dates
Early Submission
CMC-AP2017 includes an Early Submission date for authors that need an early response to their paper submission. Authors who require a longer period of time to obtain financial support to participate in the conference should consider the Early Submission. Proposals accepted during the Early Submission process don’t need to submit again during the regular submission process.
Early Submission Deadline: May 10, 2017
Early Submission Notification of Acceptance: May 20, 2017
Submission Deadline: July 20, 2017
Notification of Acceptance: July 30, 2017
Final Camera-ready Submissions: August 10, 2017
首届亚太地区概念图大会论文征集
中国·北京
2017年9月20-22日
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征集论文
首届亚太地区概念图大会(CMC-AP2017)将于2017年9月20-22日在中国北京举行。本届大会的主题是“为了理解世界和理解自我而学习”。 随着社会的进步和技术的发展,去加工处理信息而不是去拥有信息、记忆记忆和访问信息,这样的能力变得越来越重要。同样的事情发生在数学中,比起使用数学概念和来自世界的抽象数学概念来描述世界,做算术或做更高级的积分运算变得越来越微不足道。意义学习是关键。进行意义学习以及拥有意义学习的能力是其关键,而概念图有助于发展这种能力从而促进意义学习。
此前,在潘普洛纳(西班牙)、圣何塞(哥斯达黎加)、塔林(爱沙尼亚)/赫尔辛基(芬兰)、比尼亚德尔马尔(智利)、瓦莱塔(马耳他)、桑托斯(巴西)和塔林(爱沙尼亚)已成功举办了七届国际概念图大会,大会将来自世界各地的学者和对概念图感兴趣人都聚集在一起。考虑到亚太地区最近用户数量的不断增加,首届亚太概念地图会议也被视为第七届国际概念地图会议的区域延伸。这将是另一个给所有概念图使用者和研究人员分享想法的平台,特别是针对亚太地区。本次会议由北京师范大学、北京航空航天大学和美国人机认知研究所联合组织。 (点击下面链接,可以查看对应的学术计划和论文:cmc2004,cmc2006,cmc2008和cmc2010,cmc2012,cmc2014和cmc2016。所有会议录可以从CMC会议记录页面下载)。
本次大会欢迎所有人参与,不限于亚太地区,也不限于是对概念图的运用(基于Joseph Novak博士的工作)感兴趣的人,还欢迎包括但不限于对课程设计、教学规划和实施、“深刻”理解评估和协作学习感兴趣的人。 会议上的所有的展示都会包括提问、应答等学术讨论的时间。
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语言
CMC-AP2017的官方语言是英语。其中一些环节的口头报告会有中英文之间的同声传译。CMC-AP2017提供使用中英文进行口头报告和海报展示的机会。海报展示者需要与他们的海报访客进行交流,视频微观分析和讨论环节也需要与听众进行讨论。这两部分大会不提供同声传译,由报告人负责。
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报告类型
报告类型包括:
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研究工作的口头报告(附研究论文)
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创新经验的口头报告(附文字稿)
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海报展示(附文字稿)
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视频微观分析和讨论(附文字稿)
所有提交的内容都将有程序委员会进行评估筛选。
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研究工作的口头报告:完整报告是被专家组和同行(程序委员会)接收的已完成的研究报告,并会在会议记录中展示。 论文有三个类别:(a)实证研究;(b)模型或理论发展;(c)文献理论化。 每个发言人的时间为45分钟(30分钟展示+ 15分钟讨论)。必须留出时间给听众参与讨论。提交的全文长度不得超过8页。为了将论文收录在会议手册中,并呈现在会议议程中,被接收做口头报告的作者应亲自到场参会去展示他们的研究论文。提交但未被接收做口头报告的论文可能被推荐改为海报展示。在你的研究论文中,可能有很多概念图,但一定要有一个概念图来介绍报告的核心思想。
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海报展示:海报将会被布置在会场,形成一个可视化展示区。海报内容可以描述个人研究、项目、教学模式或在各种环境下应用概念图的最佳实践。海报为信息、想法、研究和项目的交流提供了有效的支持。海报的最大长度为4页,并将在会议记录中公布。 被接收做海报展示的作者应亲自出席会议并向他人介绍和解释自己的海报。海报介绍文件(doc格式)和海报模板(ppt格式,打印请使用90cm×120cm或以下大小)。在你的文字稿中,可能还有很多概念图,但一定要有一个概念图来介绍报告的核心思想。
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创新经验:这个环节包括15分钟的使用概念图方面的创新经验报告,无论是在教室、工业、组织或是个人使用中概念图经验均可。鼓励教师与自己的学生一起展示使用概念图的创新用途,比如在课程设计方面等。鼓励其他参与者展示在组织、公司、工业和咨询等不同领域中展示概念图的创新用途。测量,定量或定性结果不需要,因为重点在于分享经验,而不是研究结果。作者需要提交一份其创新经验的单页描述。被接收做创新经验分享的作者应亲自出席会议做展示。如有必要,创新经验的分享可以伴随一个或多个视频微观分析,这两者可以来自于同一作者。如果是这样的情况,请在提交论文和视频时告知我们。在你的创新经验分享中,可能有很多概念图,但需要一个概念图来介绍报告的核心思想.
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活动视频微观分析和讨论:这个环节将有60分钟长,理想的情况为30分钟视频的展示和介绍,以及30分钟的观众参与。会议将为每个讨论安排一个主持人/专家,以组织讨论并对活动进行评论。 提交这些会议需要提供一个视频文件以及一份文字稿件,在文字稿件中解释视频的中心信息和作者提交该视频的意图。 文字稿最长不超过4页,视频格式可以是AVI/MPEG/MP4之一,大小不要超过500M。在文字稿中,可以存在其他概念图,但也需要一个概念图来呈现活动的主要思想。 我们鼓励作者以概念图形式提交他们的视频和论文。将编辑或分割的视频文件和文字稿件附加到概念图后,可通过Cmaptools轻松访问到北京师范大学Cmap服务器(cmap.systemsci.org)并上传。
注册和投稿(除了视频分析投稿的视频部分)都需通过SmartChair CMC-AP2017的网站上完成。如果您在网站投稿有困难时,也可以将稿件发送至邮箱 bnufdc2016@163.com 或者 teachingthinking@163.com,或者加入QQ群 179341566。邮件标题以及加入QQ群请标注【CMC-AP2017投稿+类型+单位+姓名+电话】。会务组将协助您进行投稿。视频分析的视频部分的投稿事宜(视频分析论文和视频格式说明仍然推荐通过SmartChair CMC-AP2017的网站投稿),请通过上面的邮箱或者QQ群联系会务组。
请注意,我们已经把投稿网站从EasyChair改到SmartChair上:www.smartchair.org/CMCAP2017c/
所有被接收稿件的作者都需要支付相应的会议费用,以便将提交的内容展示于在会议中(适当时)并包括在会议的学术计划中。
会议记录将作为一本书出版并张贴在会议网站上,并联合北京师范大学出版社合集出版。其中的优秀中文稿件我们会推荐在《现代教育技术》、《现代远程教育研究》或《开放教育研究》期刊出版,优秀英文论文会推荐在《CMC2018 专刊》出版。同时也鼓励优秀中文稿件改写成英文之后,在《CMC2018 专刊》出版。投稿模板可以在这里获得 (doc格式).
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提交日期
提前提交
CMC-AP2017提供一个提前提交日期,以方便那些需要及早回应他们提交的论文的人。 需要较长时间获得资金支持以参与会议的作者应考虑提前提交。 提前提交过程中接收的论文无需在后续重新提交。
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提前提交截止日期:
2017年5月10日 -
提前提交接受通知:
2017年5月20日 -
提交截止日期:2017年7月20日
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接受通知:2017年7月30日
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最终定稿提交:2017年8月10日