Abstract: Provided herein are systems and methods for characterizing a perception of one or more concepts by one or more learners. The concepts can be presented to the one or more learners by one or more trainers. The learners can be provided with a map of key ideas in a concept. The map can identify key ideas and relationships between the key ideas to aid the learner in organizing one or more thoughts of the learner. The learner can take notes on the map in the form of a textual input. The textual input can be analyzed and compared to a list of metadata tags that were entered and stored in the map by the architect. The text analysis can be provided to the trainer in real time to indicate a level of understanding or characterization of perception of the learner.