Knowledge-Building as an Evolutionary Process: Toward a Method of Analysis

• In Event: Moscone Center North Roundtable Session 5
  In Roundtable Session: Perspectives on Complexity in Education

Abstract

This proposal joins the learning theory of knowledge building in collaborative learning communities with approaches inspired by biological analysis of the relationship between phenotypes and gene-networks. These processes, knowledge building and phenotype emergence from gene-networks, hold resemblances in that they are considered emergent from complex and dynamic interactions. We draw parallels between knowledge building activities and gene-network action. We do so in hopes of developing a method for analysis of collaborative group dynamics through computation guided by the well-established modeling of gene-networks and phenotype variation.

Authors

• Bernard P. Ricca, University of Colorado - Colorado Springs

• Nicole Bowers, Arizona State University