David Ausubel
American educational psychologist whose work on prior knowledge and advance organizers shaped modern understanding of how new information connects to existing mental models.
Warm vs. Cold Information
Warm information is material a participant already has some prior knowledge of and can recall when prompted. Cold information is material they have no prior exposure to — or exposure so thin that it can't be retrieved under the cognitive pressure of…
April 28, 2026
Concept Mapping
Concept Mapping is a learning activity in which participants construct a visual diagram — a concept map — showing how the concepts in a domain relate to each other. Each concept appears as a labeled node.
April 28, 2026