Comments on: Patterns for Online Community of Inquiry

By: Michel

Michel — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:01:14 +0000

Your work looks very interesting. The introduction to Christopher Alexanger is great. Many thanks.

As it happens I am reading Alexander’s book “Nature of Order” (Vol. 1, The Phenemenon of Life). We used his approach to construct “pedagogic patterns” model as a way do write up a scenario of a teaching/learning sequence.

PS. It is a pity that I was not able to read your diagram. Could I access it elsewhere?

By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 02 May 2008 08:37:27 +0000

Thanks for the pointers Andy and thanks for the encouragement Pamela. Hopefully I will make some more progress on this over the next couple of months.

By: Pamela McLean

Pamela McLean — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:22:33 +0000

This is a quick response just to express interest. As a non-academic (I’m an ICT4Ed&D practitioner) I particularly liked the positive reference to practitioners. This pattern ties in well with my experiences (outside the formal education system) learning through online communities.

By: Andy Dearden

Andy Dearden — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:28:16 +0000

Yes, wikis make sense for managing pattern collections, but a lot more is involved as well.

One key project to look at is:
CPSR’s Public Sphere Project http://www.publicsphereproject.org

They have produced an open source platform for managing pattern repositories in a distributed collaborative working environment. I believe that Till Schuemmer, http://www.pi6.fernuni-hagen.de/en/Team/schuemmer.html#research is doing related work.

Andy

By: stephen

stephen — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:02:36 +0000

Thanks Tom, great wiki is a great idea. Yes, some expansion of the problem essence is a good piece of advice. And even better, a beer bash in York!:^)

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:23:41 +0000

It’s a great start, and I love it… BUT… for a pattern to work it has to be easily hyper-linked… you need a wiki… I’ll make one if you want… and another thing.. I’d focus on the “The Essence of the Problem” …

… pictures help too.

I recommend you organise a beer bash (with computers) where we create a number of “patterns”… enough to make the “language” interesting…