Chapter: 'Nurturing Communities of Inquiry: A Formative Study of the DojoIBL Platform' from book: Adaptive and Adaptable Learning: 11th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2016, Lyon, France, September 13-16, 2016, Proceedings

• Main Author: Stefaan Ternier (auth)
• Other Authors: Ángel Suárez (auth), Fleur Prinsen (auth), Marcus Specht (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Nature 2016
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Subjects: community of inquiry; inquiry-based learning; collaborative knowledge-building; informal learning
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This formative study introduces DojoIBL, a web-based platform to support collaborative inquiry-based learning processes. By supporting communication and collaboration with new technological affordances, DojoIBL aims at nurturing communities of inquiry. The study elaborates on the theoretical underpi...