People have to learn to create better titles for their papers. That said, this item is a useful outline of some work using collaboration teams with scaffolding - the framework that leads the discussion toward learning outcomes by framing forms and types of responses - built in.
CRLFI had a discussion with David Jonassen last week about this concept. Jonassen and his team have build discussion lists with built-in scaffolding. But the problem with this approach is that it forces discussion along certain lines. In the internet environment, scaffolds should be available but not required. Otherwise you end up with something like Outlook - a monolith that makes you do email Bill Gates's way, no matter what may be more rational or reasonable in the given circumstances.
CRLFCRLFIt also occurs to me that discussion list scaffolding should be providied using visual tools such as Tim van Gelder's Reason!Able software.CRLF
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