COLLABORATIVE KNOWLEDGE BUILDING ONLINE

摘要

This presentation addresses, in particular, the core challenges of stimulating participation and true motivation in learners to engage in interactive collaboration and knowledge building dialogue in netbased learning. Design of online distributed collaborative learning processes based on active participation seems a complex challenge (Collis, 1997; Bates, 1999; Harasim, 1999). To design collaborative processes, which truly integrate and draw upon individual competencies and interests of the adult student appears an even more challenging activity (Cornell & Martin, 1997; Gunawardena, 1995). It calls for an alternative pedagogical thinking producing new and pedagogically innovative instructional designs. For years, in particular within the area of continuing education, it has been part of the under ying set of pedagogical intentions to design online courses utilizing the individual student perspectives and knowledge and engaging students in interactive collaboration and sha ed knowledge building. This ambition, however, has not been realized.