Armin Weinberger is the founding professor and head of the Department of Educational Technology and Knowledge Management at Saarland University. His main research interests lie in analyzing and facilitating the generation, construction, and sharing of knowledge in teams, groups of learners, and larger communities. Armin has a 20-year experience in designing, implementing, and investigating computer-supported collaboration scripts that orchestrate roles and activities of learners in technology-enhanced environments. Armin has co-founded and is co-coordinator of the Special Interest Group of EARLI on Argumentation, Dialogue, and Reasoning and is co-coordinator of the CSCL community at ISLS. Armin is among the most publishing and cited authors of CSCL.
- Weinberger, A., & Fischer, F. (2006). A framework to analyze argumentative knowledge construction in computer-supported collaborative learning. Computers & Education, 46(1), 71-95.
- Weinberger, A., Ertl, B., Fischer, F., & Mandl, H. (2005). Epistemic and social scripts in computer–supported collaborative learning. Instructional Science, 33(1), 1-30.
Keynote SALTISE Conference 2021
Breakdowns and Breakthroughs of Transactive Knowledge Co-Construction
Approaches of learning together build on the idea of advancing knowledge in interaction with others. Learners elaborate together their respective domain understanding and consequently, the epistemic quality of learners’ talk provides insight into learners’ level of understanding, i.e., the adequacy of the concepts and conceptual models learners use to solve a task. But consistently, past research has shown that there is another quality of learners’ talk that is a better predictor for learning together: transactivity, the extent to which learners operate on each other’s reasoning. We will discuss the transactive foundations and mechanisms of how we think and learn together, how learning groups may take different trajectories converging and diverging on knowledge, what harms transactivity, and how learners can be scaffolded to engage in transactive talk.
Breakdowns and Breakthroughs of Transactive Knowledge Co-Construction
SALTISE Conference 2021