CMC-AP 2017: 1st Asian-Pacific Conf on Concept Mapping (Sep 2017, Beijing China)

Dates: 20-22 September 2017
Location: Beijing, China
Website: CMC-AP
Deadline for submissions: 30 June 2017

CMC is the premier venue for presenting innovative experiences and research related to concept mapping attracting, a large number of high quality submissions and participants from a broad range of fields, from both industry and academia. It 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.

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 physically 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) will be done electronically through the CMC submissions webpage.

The Proceedings of the Conference will be published as a book and posted on the Conference web site. 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 separately. Template of oral presentation papers will be made available soon.

Submissions will be accepted in English and Chinese. The conference will be held at Beijing Normal University, in Beijing, China.

CMC-AP 2017 is being organized by Beijing Normal University (China), Beihang University (China), IHMC (USA) and the Concept Mapping Academy (Estonia).

All proceedings from previous CMC conferences are available here.

Submission Dates

Early Submission

CMC-AP 2017 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 CMC 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: For all proposals and papers: June 30, 2017
Notification of Acceptance: July 20, 2017
Final Camera-ready Submissions: August 10, 2017

Instructions on how to prepare and submit a proposal will be published shortly.