Grappling with ideas: divergence and convergence Stian Håklev, PhD Student, OISE/University of Toronto Presentation to CCK 11 April 7, 2011 - Creative Commons BY CC BY Betsy Weber @ Flickr

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Divergence, convergence, divergence, convergence, etc.

Stimulus, response, stimulus, response, ..., end of the course

Cycle of divergence and convergence + final product - representation that can be shared with others

Ideas are not fixed in one spot - affords emergent understanding of categories, connections Always have a shared up-to-date representation of the “ state of the knowledge of the group ” - enables knowledge talks

artefact discourse (cumulative vs integrative, time-based vs topic-based, high-context vs low-context, dialogue vs monologue)

Deixis?

Suthers: salience constraints

Suthers, 2001

Suthers, 2001

Alternative 1: A more web-savvy KF APIs

Alternative 2: A KB open web overlay initial post Rise above build-upons

105 人 际 网 络 - 英文与中文的开放教育世界

Downes 46 不同的 认识 性角色 (epistemic roles)

Macro-collaboration and micro-collaboration Monologue to each other, or dialgoue with each other

43 基于潜在 语义 索引的聚类 基于引文网 络 的聚类

Teplovs (2010)

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