Progressive inquiry

It is developed by Professor Kai Hakkarainen and his colleagues in the University of Helsinki[2] as a pedagogical and epistemological framework to support teachers and students in organizing their activities for facilitating expert-like working with knowledge.

It is often used with computer-supported collaborative learning so that the learners are working on their research questions and documenting their theories and findings to an online system.

To demonstrate and test the progressive inquiry with computers, Aalto Media Lab's researchers designed and developed the Fle3 software.

It relies on cognitive research on education and is closely associated with the knowledge building approach of Marlene Scardamalia, Carl Bereiter and the Interrogative Model of Inquiry introduced by Jaako Hintikka.

The model is not meant prescriptively, as an ideal path to be followed rigidly; rather it offers conceptual tools to describe, understand and take into account the critical elements in collaborative knowledge-advancing inquiry.