Towards a Knowledge Building Community: From Guided to Self-Organized Inquiry

Guided Inquiry and Consensus-Building Used to Construct Cellular Models†

Using models helps students learn from a "whole systems" perspective when studying the cell. This paper describes a model that employs guided inquiry and requires consensus building among students for its completion. The model is interactive, meaning that it expands upon a static model which, once completed, cannot be altered and additionally relates various levels of biological organization (m...

Living ethics: contributing to knowledge building through qualitative inquiry.

In this column, the authors discuss ethical and scientific standards in research and publication in light of their worldviews; human science; human becoming; and Parse's conceptual, ethical, methodological, and interpretive dimensions of the research process.

Inquiry into ‘Communities of Inquiry’: knowledge, communication, presence, community

Towards a self-organized knowledge infrastructure in a health insurance company

CSCL at the workplace is subject to the special characteristics of a situation where learning is not the primary task of the learners. The gap between the goal to work efficiently and the need to increase qualification and skills is even wider in organizations which operate in knowledge-intensive markets and where responsibility and autonomy characterize the work style of geographically distrib...

Towards building a neural networks community

December 31, 2010 is my last day as the founding editor-inchief of Neural Networks and also my 71st birthday! Such vast changes have occurred in our field since the first issue of Neural Networks was published in 1987 that it seemed appropriate to my editorial colleagues for me to reflect on some of the changes to which my own efforts contributed. Knowing where we as a community came from may, ...