Tag Archives: collaborative learning

Teaching to emerge: Toward a bottom-up pedagogy

Posted on March 30, 2019 by

This paper focuses on the conceptual model of an academic course inspired by complexity theory. In the proposed conceptual model, the aim of teaching is to form a learning organization: a knowledge community with emergent properties that cannot be reduced … Continue reading →

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Socially Mediated Metacognition and Learning to Write

Posted on June 11, 2014 by

Writing can be viewed as a recursive process involving both cognitive and metacognitive processes. Task, environment, individual cognition and affective processes all impact on producing written text. Recent research on the development of metacognition in young children has highlighted social … Continue reading →

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Development of a Metacognition Construct for Communities of Inquiry

Posted on June 11, 2014 by

Metacognition is a required cognitive ability to achieve deep and meaningful learning that must be viewed from both an individual and social perspective. Recently, the transition from the earliest individualistic models to an acknowledgment of metacognition as socially situated and … Continue reading →

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Applying Adaptive Swarm Intelligence Technology with Structuration in Web-based Collaborative Learning

Posted on May 31, 2014 by

One of the key challenges in the promotion of web-based learning is the development of effective collaborative learning environments. We posit that the structuration process strongly influences the effectiveness of technology used in web-based collaborative learning activities. In this paper, … Continue reading →

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Supporting self-directed learning with cultures of participation in collaborative learning environments

Posted on March 12, 2014 by

Different kinds of problems require different kinds of learning approaches and different sociotechnical  environments to support them. Outside the classroom, much learning and problem solving takes place as individuals explore personally meaningful problems and engage with each other in collaborative … Continue reading →

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Reflecting on Boundaries: Who is Teaching and Who is Learning?

Posted on November 6, 2013 by

By looking at the boundaries of a system, we can identify some of the challenges and opportunities to transform that system. As a faculty member I find the practice of “blurring the boundaries” to be transformative for myself and my … Continue reading →

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Collaborative Knowledge Creation – Practices, Tools, Concepts

Posted on December 6, 2012 by

This book presents perspectives on the knowledge creation metaphor of learning, and elaborates the trialogical approach to learning. The knowledge creation metaphor differs from both the acquisition and the participation metaphors. In a nutshell trialogical approaches seek to engage learners … Continue reading →

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Knowledge intensive work as human centered, task-based and as collaborative learning

Posted on December 29, 2010 by

Knowledge intensive work as human centered, task-based and as collaborative learning Finland’s innovation system has previously been one of the world’s top systems. However, recently we have begun to fail in global comparisons of development of the information society and … Continue reading →

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Collaborative Creation of Teaching-Learning Sequences and an Atlas of Knowledge

Posted on October 28, 2010 by

Viewer The article is about a new online resource, a collaborative portal for teachers, which publishes a network of prerequisites for teaching/learning any concept or an activity. A simple and effective method of collaboratively constructing teaching-learning sequences is presented. The … Continue reading →

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Why Peer Discussion Improves Student Performance on In-Class Concept Questions

Posted on October 15, 2010 by

When students answer an in-class conceptual question individually using clickers, discuss it with their neighbors, and then revote on the same question, the percentage of correct answers typically increases. This outcome could result from gains in understanding during discussion, or … Continue reading →

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