Seven basic characteristics of trialogical learning processes¶

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Description¶

The paper enumerates seven features that any learning or knowledge creation process following the trialogical approach shows: activities organised around developing shared objects aimed at re-usable artefacts or practices; participant access to information about the evolution of these objects; a collective zone of proximal development greater than the individual's; opportunities to re-produce ideas in texts, models and representations that others can build on; catering for collaboratively and iteratively solving ill-defined/complex problems; integration of face-to-face and virtual activities; and delegating high-level responsibility for knowledge creation to students rather than teachers. These characteristics shape the KP-Lab project, guide its empirical research and technology development, and inform guidelines for others.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Organisation of learning activities around shared objects and re-usable knowledge artefacts
• Technology and practices that make object evolution visible to participants

Constraints¶

• The characteristics were formulated within the KP-Lab project's settings of higher education, teacher training and work organisations

Target Learners¶

• higher education students
• trainee teachers
• work teams

Target Goals¶

• knowledge creation
• collaborative development of artefacts and practices

Claims¶

Related Patterns¶

Examples¶

• Knowledge Practices Environment (KPE): a platform for object-centred collaborative knowledge creation
• Pedagogical scenarios that organise learning around knowledge creation with shared objects
• Promote knowledge creation by coordinating group practices, technology affordances, interaction genres, community metaskills, and trialogical learning through design-based research

Key Sources¶

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