Structuring elements in knowledge creation processes for classes

Spike Hall describes some structuring elements in knowledge creation efforts in classes:

• Formal Debate
• Each participant committed to active participation with a reward for doing so.
• Moral Dimension of Student Product: Students were assigned to an
• advisory committee advising a business on the negative impact of
• business activity on public health.
• Student activity within advisory committee constrained within a series
• of production stages.
• First stage: identify facts, debate solutions and propose a synthesis.
• Next three steps: Test the solutions against a prescribed set of principles.
• Final Stage: Provide an [executive] summary

This resembles some of the principles in a course guide (german) I have put online for my own seminars.