Joachim Kimmerle and Johannes Moskaliuk and Ulrike Cress
Individual Learning and Collaborative Knowledge Building with Shared Digital Artifacts
1171 - 1178
2008
2
10
International Journal of Psychological and Behavioral Sciences
https://publications.waset.org/pdf/7501
https://publications.waset.org/vol/22
World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
The development of Internet technology in recent years has led to a more active role of users in creating Web content. This has significant effects both on individual learning and collaborative knowledge building. This paper will present an integrative framework model to describe and explain learning and knowledge building with shared digital artifacts on the basis of Luhmanns systems theory and Piagets model of equilibration. In this model, knowledge progress is based on cognitive conflicts resulting from incongruities between an individuals prior knowledge and the information which is contained in a digital artifact. Empirical support for the model will be provided by 1) applying it descriptively to texts from Wikipedia, 2) examining knowledgebuilding processes using a social network analysis, and 3) presenting a survey of a series of experimental laboratory studies.
Open Science Index 22, 2008