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Title: Making Use of Collective Knowledge - A Cognitive Approach
Authors: Cress, Ulrike
Issue Date: Jun-2013
Publisher: International Society of the Learning Sciences
Citation: Cress, U. (2013). Making Use of Collective Knowledge - A Cognitive Approach. In Rummel, N., Kapur, M., Nathan, M., & Puntambekar, S. (Eds.), To See the World and a Grain of Sand: Learning across Levels of Space, Time, and Scale: CSCL 2013 Conference Proceedings Volume 1 — Full Papers & Symposia (pp. 129-136). Madison, WI: International Society of the Learning Sciences.
Abstract: From a cognitive perspective, knowledge resides in people's minds., and there is no conceptualization of `collective knowledge'. In the socio-cultural approach the concept of collective knowledge is central. The Co-Evolution Model of Individual Learning and Collaborative Knowledge Building (Cress & Kimmerle, 2008; Moskaliuk, Kimmerle & Cress, 2009, 2012) combines both approaches and considers internal-individual and external- collaborative processes that take place when people work on a shared artifact. We apply this framework to social tagging and explain how tag clouds represent collective knowledge. Referring to the Information Foraging Theory (Pirolli, 2007; Pirolli & Card, 1999) we show how people make use of collective knowledge when navigating with tag clouds. We give an overview of several experimental studies that induce situations where individual and collective knowledge contradict each other. The results show that in such situations incidental learning takes place, and users' individual conceptual knowledge assimilates to the collective conceptual knowledge.
URI: https://doi.dx.org/10.22318/cscl2013.1.129
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