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).