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Title | ||
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Does scale matter: using different lenses to understand collaborative knowledge building |
Abstract | ||
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Web-based environments for communicating, networking and sharing information, often referred to collectively as "Web 2.0," have become ubiquitous - e.g., Wikipedia, Facebook, Flickr, or YouTube. Understanding how such technologies can promote participation, collaboration and co-construction of knowledge, and how such affordances could be used for educational purposes has become a focus of research in the Learning Science and CSCL communities (e.g., Dohn, 2009; Greenhow et al., 2009). One important mechanism is self-organization, which includes the regulation of feedback loops and the flows of information and resources within an activity system (Holland, 1996). But the study of such mechanisms calls for new ways of thinking about the unit of analysis, and the development of analytic tools that allow us to move back and forth through levels of activity systems that are designed to promote learning. Here, we propose that content analysis can focus on the flows of resources (i.e., content knowledge, scientific artifacts, epistemic beliefs) in terms of how they are established and the factors affecting whether they are taken up by members of the community. |
Year | Venue | Keywords |
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2010 | ICLS | educational purpose,collaborative knowledge building,different lens,analytic tool,Learning Science,Web-based environment,CSCL community,content knowledge,activity system,content analysis,scale matter,feedback loop,epistemic belief |
Field | DocType | Citations |
Unit of analysis,Content analysis,Learning sciences,World Wide Web,Computer science,Knowledge building,Affordance,Content knowledge | Conference | 1 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.41 | 0 | 3 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth S. Charles | 1 | 7 | 5.39 |
| Nathaniel Lasry | 2 | 3 | 2.16 |
| Chris Whittaker | 3 | 1 | 1.76 |