Dialogic Inquiry

01 / 07 / 13

Spaces between people: A place for learning

This is the text of the poster which I’m presenting at the HERDSA 2013 conference today. Our digital native students may be able to use technologies, but that does not mean they can learn from them. Being able to read and write never meant you could therefore learn from books (Laurillard, 2013, p. xvii). Many university students can operate comfortably in the space of digital networks but they need help in learning how to make them places for learning. A design research …

Theory-based and practical

This site provides a theory-based, yet practical means of helping lecturers to facilitate learning through asynchronous dialogue online, whether through discussion forums, blogs, wikis or other social software. The theoretical model was based on Wegerif’s (2007) online adaptation of Lipman’s community of inquiry model (2003) and Levy’s inquiry based learning model (2009). A design research methodology was used to develop and iteratively test this professional development intervention. The three iterations of the testing each informed the refinement of this site. Levy, …