Group Model-Building ‘Scripts’ as a Collaborative Planning Tool

On Building a Planning Tool

A planning tool box is a set of software modules implementing diierent planning algorithms, techniques, and representation languages. A planning system designer can use these modules|and possibly additional own ones| for building a whole family of generic or application planners. The paper explains the concept and outlines work on developing such a tool box. In particular, it identiies descript...

Scriptapedia: A Handbook of Scripts for Developing Structured Group Model Building Sessions

This paper describes a handbook of scripts—Scriptapedia—for developing structured group model building sessions. Andersen and Richardson (1997) have identified the importance of standardized protocols or “scripts” in group model building (GMB). GMB scripts have historically existed as undocumented structured small group exercises. Scriptapedia represents an effort to improve the practice of GMB...

A Model of Collaborative Knowledge- Building

This paper presents a model of learning as a social process incorporating multiple distinguishable phases that constitute a cycle of personal and social knowledge-building. It explicitly considers the relationship of processes associated with individual minds to those considered to be socio-cultural. This model of collaborative knowledge-building incorporates insights from various theories of u...

A Model of Collaborative Knowledge-Building

This paper presents a model of learning as a social process incorporating multiple distinguishable phases that constitute a cycle of personal and social knowledge-building. It explicitly considers the relationship of processes associated with individual minds to those considered to be socio-cultural. This model of collaborative knowledge-building incorporates insights from various theories of u...

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