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Tag: knowledge construction

From oppression to liberation – PBL2025 conference

Oct 31, 2025

in AI, Education, Learning, Presentation

authentic learning, authentic problems, higher education, knowledge construction, learner agency, problem-based learning, trust-based learning

Institutional responses to AI—detection software, control policies—reveal that education has always measured proxies for learning rather than learning itself. PBL’s foundational commitments to agency, collaborative knowledge construction, and authentic problems position it to respond differently, enabling students to maintain control over meaning through context sovereignty while developing evaluative judgement about what deserves to exist.
Using the Community of Inquiry in online learning environments

Jan 12, 2012

in Learning, PhD, Physiotherapy, Research, Social media, Teaching

cognitive presence, collaboration, communication, community of inquiry, discourse, experiential learning, groupwork, knowledge construction, kolb, online learning, peer evaluation, reflection, self-assessment, social networks, social presence, teaching presence, zone of proximal development

I’m in the process of putting together a workshop for the facilitators of one of our modules that we’re restructuring in order to use a blended learning approach. Here are the notes that I’ve been putting together on the Community of Inquiry (CoI) for the workshop. Bear in mind that these notes are my attempt…