Wikis are promoted as collaborative writing tools that allow students to transform a text into a collective document by information sharing and group reflection. However, despite the promising collaborative capabilities of wikis, their pedagogical value regarding collaborative writing is still questionable. Wiki alone cannot make collaborative writing happen, and students do not automatically b...

This paper starts with a survey of different notions of learning, and finds that the “logic” of discovery has been neglected. The paradox of “exploitation” and “ exploration”, derived from the organization literature, is proposed as the core issue. We need to recognize the importance of organization and co-ordination, in learning and innovation. This implies, among other things, that transactio...

This paper examine whether Constructivist-Learning Approach could be used to help learners with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Preliminary work is discussed here; in which the author seeks to determine the reason why Constructivist-learning is difficult for learners with ADHD. Results based on literature analysis lead to recommendations of two stages: (1) why we think ADHD lea...

This article presents a discourse analysis method designed to study networked cognitive communication processes in knowledge communities, such as conceptual change, higher order learning and knowledge building. The method is grounded on genetic epistemology and integrates constructivist and socioconstructivist theoretical concepts. The sentence (understood as judgment) is chosen as the unit of ...

The production of scientific knowledge is a social process that can be analysed with the help of conceptual tools drawn from economic science. A growing literature shows that this analysis is fruitful for the understanding of relevant cognitive aspects of the process of science and its outcomes, and can offer a middle ground between rationalist and constructivist paradigms. Three apoproaches ar...

Scientific knowledge is grounded in a particular epistemology and, owing to the requirements of that epistemology, possesses limitations. Some limitations are intrinsic, in the sense that they depend inherently on the nature of scientific knowledge; others are contingent, depending on the present state of knowledge, including technology. Understanding limitations facilitates scientific research...

In 1971 Churchman drew our attention to the importance of epistemology for information systems by modeling five types of ‘inquiring’ systems based on the evolving forms of epistemology. However, the evolution of epistemology did not end there. The most recent advance is the deliberative model. In this paper we clarify and strengthen the concept of deliberative communication as a form of deliber...