Applications of visual knowledge representation in instruction models

Abstract

One of the objectives of instruction process is to transfer knowledge from teachers to learners, and this knowledge has to be interpreted, to be clear and to be retained from learners. Taking in consideration one of the roles of the knowledge representation, that one of expression’s mode of the humans, the languages in which the teachers can present things, theories, facts and so forth, visual methods of knowledge representation have a lot of applications in the process of education.This paper presents the utilization of the informal and formal concept map, and theirs associate visual languages. Visual knowledge representation and the active participation of the learners in instruction process are certain keys of the success of teaching and learning process. All of these can be realized using concept map as tools of instruction and making the learners to take part in designing and realizing informal concept map, conceptual graphs and even conceptual dependency for the objects of the course’s content.