Depict complex tacit and explicit knowledge and context Reflect how separate facets integrate or influence outcomes Connect and display areas of influence, challenges Illustrate concepts, process and knowledge flow around “Focus Question” Promote new knowledge and learning - apply for improved outcomes Temporal, artifact, iterative

1. The KM Reference Group Meeting
Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013 at 10am EDT
Practical Applications of Knowledge
Mapping
Presenters:
Elizabeth McLean, KM Analyst M/CIO/ITSD/KM USAID
Ann Hendrix-Jenkins and Rebecca Simon, K4Health
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Lynn M. Van Lith, Senior Technical Advisor-HIV/AIDS and Sita Magnuson of
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Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Communication Programs

2. Knowledge Mapping
http://www.bantjes.com/project/varoom-15-knowledge

4. Generate>Capture>Share >Assess>Apply
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System maps are visual representations of your knowledge domain,
where proximity and connections between entities are used to express
the relationships between them. System maps can be descriptive or
conceptual.
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Mind maps or concept maps are examples of the more conceptual
system maps. So are process maps. All of these maps help to organize
concepts and entities, and they are often used to communicate the key
…vocabulary of your domain.
AIIM: http://www.aiim.org/community/blogs/expert/How-to-Determine-the-Best-Form-for-yourTaxonomy#sthash.XXEkkTiP.dpuf

6. Decoding the terms
Type
Description
Knowledge Maps
Graph representing what knowledge
resides where, shows knowledge flow
patterns. Directory of where to go for
expertise and how assets are connected.
(SDC Knowledge Toolkit)
Group Concept Maps*
Novak 1970. Group ideas visualized
about specific topic of interest.
Structured. Brainstorming, Relational.
Participatory. Multiple ideas.
Learning/Research in given topic/context.
Concept Maps
Trokim 1980s. Capture and archive expert
tacit knowledge concepts graphically.
Gaps easy to spot and revisit with SME.
Mind Maps
Buzan 1970s. Diagram used to depict
facets of single topic with categories and
subs radiating off of it. Individualized.

7. Concept Mapping as KM Tool
Tacit and Explicit Transformed in
Context
Assess

8. Group Concept Mapping
Can transform
understanding
of complex
issues and
processes and
be visually
memorable for
tacit and
explicit capture
and application.

9. “…a good concept map is at once simple,
but also elegantly complex with profound
meanings. Concept mapping has been
shown to help learners learn, researchers
create new knowledge, administrators to
better
structure
and
manage
organizations, writers to write, and
evaluators assess learning.”
Revised January 22, 2008. Cite as: “Novak, J. D. & A. J. Cañas, The Theory Underlying Concept Maps and
How to Construct Them, Technical Report IHMC CmapTools 2006-01 Rev 01-2008, Florida Institute for Human
and Machine Cognition, 2008", available
at:http://cmap.ihmc.us/Publications/ResearchPapers/TheoryUnderlyingConceptMaps.pdf.

10. Components
What Are Group Concept Maps?
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Graphical tools for organizing and visualizing knowledge
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Based on concepts and the relationships links by connecting lines
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Linking words or phrases describe the relationship between two concepts
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2-dimensional node-links depict most important concepts and relationships
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Hierarchical
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Context established by “Focus Question” and how knowledge and learning is
being applied
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Cross-links show relationships to concepts in different segments or domains on
the map – crucial to the creation, realization and application of new knowledge
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Can include specific examples of events or objects that clarify of a given concept
http://www.cmu.edu/teaching/assessment/howto/assesslearning/conceptmaps.html

11. Applied Components
http://infovis.net/imagenes/T1_N141_A4_CmapTools.gif

12. Benefits
• Depict complex tacit and explicit
knowledge and context
• Reflect how separate facets integrate or
influence outcomes
• Connect and display areas of influence,
challenges
• Illustrate concepts, process and
knowledge flow around “Focus Question”
• Promote new knowledge and learning apply for improved outcomes
• Temporal, artifact, iterative

13. Practical Applications: H3C HIV
Lynn Van Lith
Sita Magnuson
and the
Evidence Review: Impact of Health
Communication on HIV Prevention
Outcomes at the H3C HIV Expert
Consultation

14. Practical Applications
Ann-Hendrix Jenkins
Rebecca Simon
and the
K4Health Global Health
Share Fair Wall