Investigating the role of reflective thinking in the collaborative knowledge building process

"Collaborative knowledge building (CKB) as an area of research has gained considerable interest amongst researchers from a variety of fields such as computer-supported collaborative learning, learning sciences and knowledge management to name a few. The interest in CKB can be attributed to a number of interrelated factors such as the pervasive nature of group work within organisational settings to deal with complex problems and the premise that collaboration can support knowledge building by allowing groups to work on shared problems...This research uses Stahl's (2000) CKB model as a foundational framework to investigate whether and ow reflective thinking processes contribute to the CKB process"--Abstract.