This paper provides an overview of emerging activity patterns on Cloudworks, a specialised site for sharing and debating ideas as well as resources on teaching, learning and scholarship in education. It provides an overview of activities such as ‘flash debates’, ‘blended workshops’ and ‘open reviews’ and seeks to situate dialogic interchanges and structures of involvement within the following t...

Many teachers still use in-class multiple choice exams in their classes, the primary goal of which is to see how much the students have already learned. The assessment strategies we will examine in this paper change the focus from assessing whether students have learned anything to creating assessments which double as learning experiences themselves. Assessments do not have to merely measure wh...

This paper positions and justifies an ongoing research project, the doctoral research of the first-named author. Two of the authors have previously critically reviewed the literature concerning the relationships between data, information and knowledge (Gregory & Descubes 2011a). This paper introduces personal information management systems PIMS as a mechanism used to support the personal knowle...

Dialogic communication plays a remarkably substantial role in sustaining good interactions between teachers and students the shared-learning process inside class. Within case study approach, this research explores dialogic communication's increasing teacher-student interaction Eksperimental Mangunan Elementary School's process. The research's data collected through in-depth interviews with two ...

This article reports on a study which analysed the dialogue among students working in small groups. The main aim of analysis was to identify types interaction through student-student talk. also examined association between and correctness answers provided by task. Results suggest that “dialogic interaction”, as type action based use validity claims (including conjectures, reasoning proof) withi...

Dialogic learning and interactive groups have proved to be a useful methodological approach applied in educational situations for lifelong adult learners. The principles of this approach stress the importance of dialogue and equal participation also when designing the training activities. This paper adopts these principles as the basis for a configurable template that can be integrated in runti...