Four forms of learning and knowledge building with wikis: internal and external assimilation and accommodation¶
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q1 i? The model distinguishes internal assimilation (quantitative individual learning), internal accommodation (qualitative individual learning), external assimilation (quantitative knowledge building), and external accommodation (qualitative knowledge building). → Ulrike Cress & Joachim Kimmerle 2008
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Ulrike Cress & Joachim Kimmerle 2008¶
Ulrike Cress & Joachim Kimmerle. (2008). A systemic and cognitive view on collaborative knowledge building with wikis. Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-007-9035-z
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Definitional statement of the model's central taxonomy, applying Piaget's assimilation/accommodation distinction both inside cognitive systems and to the wiki as a social system. The article cites Majchrzak et al. (2006) as observing corresponding adder and synthesizer activities in a corporate wiki.
"in collaborative knowledge building with wikis four different forms of learning and knowledge building can be distinguished: Internal assimilation (quantitative individual learning), internal accommodation (qualitative individual learning), external assimilation (quantitative knowledge building), and external accommodation (qualitative knowledge building)."
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Related Claims¶
- Internalizing wiki information can yield emergent knowledge that was in neither the person's prior knowledge nor the wiki
- Externalizing knowledge into a wiki can itself produce individual learning through deeper processing
- Only medium-level incongruity between individual knowledge and wiki information causes cognitive conflict that motivates equilibration
- Topic valence is proposed to relate linearly to perceived cognitive conflict and interest in contributing
- Exploratory analyses find evidence for a relation between aspects of the collaborative process and knowledge convergence — related
- Wikipedia history analysis shows external assimilation: a user added only the CSILE/Knowledge Forum link without further changes — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
- Wikipedia history analysis shows external accommodation: the AIDS origin article progressively weakened and integrated the contentious polio vaccine theory — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
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Four forms of learning and knowledge building with wikis: internal and external assimilation and accommodation |
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Four forms of learning and knowledge building with wikis: internal and external assimilation and accommodation |
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