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. 2011 Nov-Dec;16(6):427–432. doi: 10.1155/2011/359079

TABLE 1.

Knowledge building principles for pedagogic design

12 principles for designing knowledge building environments
  1. Real ideas, authentic problems

  2. Improvable ideas

  3. Idea diversity

  4. Rise-above

  5. Epistemic agency

  6. Community knowledge, collective responsibility

  7. Democratizing knowledge

  8. Symmetric knowledge advancement

  9. Pervasive knowledge building

  10. Constructive use of authoritative sources

  11. Knowledge building discourse

  12. Embedded and transformative assessment

Adapted from reference 13