Processual responsiveness in dialogic facilitation

A dialogic approach to online facilitation

Social construction of understanding has long been a significant underlying principle of learning and teaching, and while there are many models for the design of online activities to promote this, there are considerably fewer models for the facilitation of such dialogue. This paper examines some of these facilitation models from the point of view of a university tutor seeking to encourage socia...

Strategic Thinking - Processual Context

Towards a processual microbial ontology

Standard microbial evolutionary ontology is organized according to a nested hierarchy of entities at various levels of biological organization. It typically detects and defines these entities in relation to the most stable aspects of evolutionary processes, by identifying lineages evolving by a process of vertical inheritance from an ancestral entity. However, recent advances in microbiology in...

Representing dialogic argumentation

Dialogic argumentation is a crucial component in many computational domains, and forms a core component of argumentation theory. This paper compares two approaches to dialogue that have grown from two different disciplines; the descriptive–normative approach of applied philosophy, and the formal, implemented approach of computer science. The commonalities between the approaches are explored in ...

From dialogic to trialogic learning

This poster looks at dialogic learning in academic practice with the specific aim of the collaborative processing of texts. In identifying some shortcomings of these dialogic practices it introduces the notion of trialogic learning, and presents the results from a comparative study on the affordances of different asynchronous discussion tools to support a more content-oriented and trialogic for...