Concept Taxonomy

The 462 concepts of MicroSims 2.0 fall into 15 categories. The TaxonomyID is used in learning-graph.csv.

Foundations and Anatomy

TaxonomyID: FOUND
Concepts: 36

What a MicroSim is, the web technologies it rests on, and the files and regions that make up one.

TaxonomyID: OBJ
Concepts: 26

Learning objectives, Bloom's 2001 Taxonomy, cognitive load, and the instructional design checkpoint that precedes any code.

TaxonomyID: TYPE
Concepts: 34

The MicroSim type catalog, the routing rubric that maps an objective to a type, and specialized types such as labs and sorting quizzes.

TaxonomyID: GEN
Concepts: 24

Generating MicroSims with AI skills and agents: prompts, specifications, refinement, and the failure modes of generated code.

TaxonomyID: P5
Concepts: 22

Building animated and interactive MicroSims with p5.js, including physics, controls and showcase-quality animation.

TaxonomyID: CHRT
Concepts: 20

Charts, plots, tables and infographics built with Chart.js, Plotly and HTML.

TaxonomyID: DIAG
Concepts: 30

Diagrams, networks, causal-loop diagrams, timelines and maps built with Mermaid, vis-network, vis-timeline and Leaflet.

TaxonomyID: OVL
Concepts: 28

Image overlays, grid-overlay comparison posters, and fact-verified posters.

TaxonomyID: QA
Concepts: 36

Width-responsive design, iframe height management, and automated quality checks: the quality score, Playwright tests and vision-based layout review.

TaxonomyID: BATCH
Concepts: 30

Batch generation from specifications, status tracking, metadata, search and reuse.

TaxonomyID: XAPI
Concepts: 40

Instrumenting MicroSims with xAPI: statements, verbs, evidence classes, the runtime, and concept mapping.

TaxonomyID: LRS
Concepts: 34

The full Learning Record Store: architecture, multi-tenancy, ingestion, storage, dashboards, cost and compliance.

TaxonomyID: LITE
Concepts: 28

LRS-Lite, the serverless compact strategy: producer-side summaries, the browser database, sync, and choosing between Full and Lite.

TaxonomyID: MAST
Concepts: 40

Predicting concept mastery from the xAPI stream: knowledge tracing, and how to measure predictive fidelity.

TaxonomyID: PED
Concepts: 34

Pedagogy, accessibility, privacy and ethics, the capstone, and the future of MicroSims.