Young pretender?

There is more interest in my 5-stage wiki activities model (Left) - this time from Holland. A few days ago Wilfred Rubens (Utrecht) posted a brief commentary and now Paulo Moekotte (Enschede) has posted an image of the model alongside Gilly Salmon's 5-step e-moderation model. He argues that 'students would probably need some kind of e-moderating' (alongside the wiki activity). He doesn't feel that students get 'drawn in' to all collaborative learning activities on their own but often will require some kind of scaffolding. I tend to agree, but scaffolding can come from the built in features of the learning environment, which is where the wiki activities come in, and also in the form of encouragement from peers as well as tutors or 'e-moderators'. Anyway, this is the first time the two models have appeared alongside each other - is it sort of like the king and the young pretender? ....hmmm.

No, not really. For anyone who thinks they are rival models, they are not, and that's not what I intended. But there is probably some room for them to complement each other and I would be interested in hearing comments from anyone who has thoughts about it. In the meantime it looks as though I will need to do some more work to flesh out the model now that there is so much interest...