“If you are using CmapTools on your desktop or laptop, and also want to build your Cmaps on your iPad, you need a way to move the maps around,” Cañas said. More than 225 million iPads have been sold since it was introduced in 2010.
IHMC is a world leader and developer of software for concept mapping, which is used around the world by businesses, schools and universities.ĬmapTools has long been available for use on laptops and desktop computers, but the proliferation of the iPad created a demand for adapting the software for the versatile tablet. CmapTools empower users to construct, navigate, share and criticize knowledge models represented as concept maps. “It’s amazing how fast elementary school students got into building the maps, and the speed at which they can build them using the iPad.”Ĭoncept maps are graphical tools for organizing and representing knowledge in an organized fashion. Alberto Cañas, the leading developer of CmapTools. “During our testing, the iPad version of CmapTools was particularly popular with elementary and high school students,” said IHMC Associate Director and Senior Research Scientist Dr. Researchers at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC) have released a new version to the Apple App Store. CmapTools, the software used by millions of people around the world to build concept maps, is now available for the iPad.