Acknowledgments For over five decades, I have been blessed with many excellent graduate stu- dents, including the team that helped to develop the concept mapping tool in the early 1970s. I have also enjoyed the stimulation, support and insights from many visiting professors from all parts of the world. These people have been my mentors and we have learned together. The Department of Education and the Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University have been a hospitable home for my work for 31 years. Professor Alan McAdams of the Johnson Graduate School of Man- agement has been especially helpful in assisting me to understand business issues and problems, especially through a course we co-taught in the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. My colleagues at Procter and Gamble, Larry Huston and Larry Hughes and others, have also been excellent mentors, Since 1987, I have worked with colleagues at the University of West Florida and the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC). This has been crucial to advancing our work in helping people learn, as well as more recent efforts to capture and archive expert knowledge and to encourage collaborative learning, The IHMC has developed some outstanding software for concept mapping under the leadership of Alberto Cafias, and this software is available at no cost to school and corporate clients at: http://emap.ihme.us. Dr. Cafas and his wife Carmen have also been a constant source of ideas, constructive criticism, and warm personal relationships. Advances in the World Wide Web and CmapTools have made possible what Dr. Caftas and I call a New Model for Education. My three children, two grandchildren, and my wife, Joan, have been a source of energy, ideas, and inspiration. Much of the cxedit for the ideas in this book belongs to these mentors, but the shortcom- ings are my own. I extend my warm and grateful thanks to all of these good folks. I also wish to thank Professor Shavelson for taking time from his busy schedule to read and write a Foreword to this book.