Tlt Symposium 2014 Elevator Pitch - The adaptive map - A concept map based digital textbook

{psychedelic sound} Hello, my name is Jacob Moore and I'd like to invite you to my discussion on digital textbooks. Textbooks have been used in education practice for, now, more than a hundred years. There's been little to no change. With the new digital medium, there's a new design flexibility with textbooks that hasn't been there before. So now is the time that we really need to re-exam how the textbook is designed. We want a textbook that's based in theory, not based on the existing paper tool that's there now. I've been working in this area specifically to use concept maps as a way to organize information that better matches how people store information in their head. The incarnation of this has been the Adaptive Map tool, which I've got running behind me here. And with the adaptive map tool, we've got a concept map based system. So please join me for the discussion where I'm gonna demonstrate the Adaptive Map tool and talk about the theory behind this. I'll share the results of what I've found so far, and discuss how that's relevant to you. And I'd like to start a discussion about the future of textbooks, understanding what textbooks are gonna look like twenty years from now. So please join me and thank you for listening. {psychedelic sound}