Pedagogical scenarios that organise learning around knowledge creation with shared objects¶

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Description¶

The paper describes pedagogical scenarios aimed at settings where the emphasis is upon knowledge creation, each based on completed or ongoing project work. Examples include supporting globally distributed design work in company settings where teams synchronously and asynchronously create common projects manifested in blueprints, plans and reports; enhancing coaching skills among teacher trainers supporting trainee teachers in creating and using knowledge objects such as guidelines, best practice toolkits and resource banks; and facilitating multidisciplinary project work among third-level students on real-life customer-oriented open-ended assignments. In the student scenario the approach facilitates setting up a context with complex problems, questioning and problematizing, constructing working hypotheses and solutions, deepening analysis, creating knowledge artefacts for subsequent use, critical user evaluation, and reflection on transformed knowledge practices.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Learning environments and technology that support work on shared objects across distributed teams and communities

Constraints¶

• The scenarios were derived from completed or ongoing KP-Lab project work in company, teacher-training and higher-education settings

Target Learners¶

• third-level students
• trainee teachers
• distributed workplace design teams

Target Learning Goals¶

• knowledge creation on open-ended real-life assignments
• coaching and mentoring skills
• collaborative design of shared project artefacts

Affordances¶

• Trialogical Learning Framework

Related Strategies¶

• Trialogical Learning Design Characteristics
• Redesign course projects around collaboration, open-ended problems, shared knowledge objects, technology mediation, and as-needed mentoring

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Reynolds, S., & Camilleri, A. F. (2010). KP-LAB: Breaking New Ground on How to Create Knowledge Through Learning. EDEN 2010 Conference, Valencia.