The problem / intent

• learning as a process of collective construction of knowledge.
• Topics are discussed, elaborated, and continuously refined by a community of learners (knowledge constructors).
• The mutual influences of individuals’ actions within a community compel people to adapt to each other.
• Adaptation is a positive contribution to efficient knowledge building, but also a necessary requirement for a knowledge building community to arise at all.

Some patterns in this collection

• Challenge exchange
• Consensus report
• Peer crit
• Sustaining interaction
  

Related patterns

Leads to: Narrative
Follows: Construction. Collaboration
Elaborates: Structure, Interface and interaction
Elaborated by: Challenge exchange, Consensus report, Peer crit, Sustaining interaction

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