Dissertation on Information systems in ed.

MASTERING THE USE OF GOBBLEDYGOOK – Studies on the Development of Expertise Through Exposure to Experienced Practitioners’ Deliberation on Authentic Problems Klas Karlgren

This guy puts together some stuff about cognitive apprenticeship including material from Jean Lave, John Sealy Brown etc. Nice connection to info systems and On-line learning environments His central thesis is that Academic preparation involves the learning of the specialized language of a community of practice. gobbledygook he calls it. The process of learning is congnitive apprenticeship and that can be done in a online format.